[Bug 931436] Re: Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data

2012-02-13 Thread Brett Connor
I can get my data now through ecryptfs-recover. Perhaps the README that gets created should reference this rather than mount-private? Still would like to be able to reuse the partition rather than have to wipe it to upgrade, that's the main issue. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 931436] Re: Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data

2012-02-13 Thread Brett Connor
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[Bug 931436] [NEW] Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data

2012-02-13 Thread Brett Connor
Public bug reported: My ununtu desktop failed to boot one day, saying "no init found". I could not get past this, including going back to previous configurations. So I downloaded the latest version, burned a CD and tried to install that. Booting from the CD is OK, but I can't get my old user data