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[wilderness wanderer <jdmfilter-spam@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm seeing this too.  At first I thought it was an Xorg problem as I
turned on compiz at the same time as setting up thinkfinger.

Clearly it is just a matter of needing to actually enter the password to
decrypt the home directory.

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Authentication with thinkfinger stalls login when user homes are encrypted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351280
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: Confirmed
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “pam” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
When authenticating to the system with thinkfinger, the user encrypted home directories are not automatically mounted. Even though this makes total sense, since you will need to supply the password to unlock the encryption key. Having said this, the user should be prompted for the password in case if he/she is authenticated using thinkfinger or similar method. What happens now is when login to gdm using finger swipe, gdm starts loading and nothing happens. No message/warning is displayed. The user just sits there starring at a black screen :-)

My system is Jaunty Beta on Thinkpad T61p:

lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release:	9.04


apt-cache policy ecryptfs-utils 
ecryptfs-utils:
  Installed: 73-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 73-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 73-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


uname -a
Linux finka 2.6.28-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 10:01:17 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux