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Re: unable to mount old filesystem

 

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:32 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 00:08 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 16:52 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > I have an old backup disk that I don't use horribly often.  Looks like
> > > the last time I used it was April.  I got it out today, and it refuses
> > > to mount.
> > > 
> > > Oct  4 16:50:31 nimitz mount.ecryptfs: Passphrase key already in
> > > keyring; rc = [1] 
> > > Oct  4 16:50:32 nimitz kernel: [  892.608596] process_request_key_err:
> > > No key
> > > Oct  4 16:50:32 nimitz kernel: [  892.637689] One or more global auth
> > > toks could not properly register; rc = [-2]
> > > 
> > > I have another, newer filesystem that still mounts with no issues.  I
> > > tried a few older kernels with no success.  Any ideas? 
> > 
> > Without revealing your keys or signatures, what did you use for mount
> > options?
> 
> mount -t ecryptfs -orw,plaintext_passthrough=n,\
> 		ecryptfs_unlink_sigs,\
> 		cryptfs_fnek_sig=abc,\
> 		ecryptfs_key_bytes=32,\
> 		ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_sig=abc ecfs/ ecfs/
> 
> One odd part is that I used the same password for both this and the
> newer filesystem, but the signatures are different.  

Did you use a salt, per chance (either previously, or this time), in
~/.ecryptfsrc ?

:-Dustin

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