** Summary changed:
- ecryptfs exits with error message
+ ecryptfs fails to mount (Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the
KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING)
** Description changed:
+ ecryptfs seems to be currently broken on Trusty.
+ System: Trusty
+ Linux: 3.13.0-8-generic #28-Ubuntu
+ ecryptfs: 103-0ubuntu2 or 104-0ubuntu1
+
+ Any attempt to mount fails with:
+ Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING;
there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention
support into your kernel?
+
+
+ Original reporter mentioned earlier kernel also:
+ ------------------------------------------------
+
I am using the fedora 19 default kernel, which should have ecryptfs
support. I don't think something is wrong with my kernel. Nevertheless I
get this strange error message. Googling it lead to nothing, so I
suspect this is a bug in ecryptfs?
- iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test lsmod | grep ecrypt
- ecryptfs 85466 0
+ iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test lsmod | grep ecrypt
+ ecryptfs 85466 0
encrypted_keys 18502 1 ecryptfs
- iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test mkdir -m 700 private
- iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test sudo mount -t ecryptfs private private
+ iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test mkdir -m 700 private
+ iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test sudo mount -t ecryptfs private private
Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING;
there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention
support into your kernel?
- ✘ iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test uname -a
+ ✘ iblue@silence ~/ecrypt-test uname -a
Linux silence 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 13:03:01 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+ ---------------------------------------------------
** Changed in: ecryptfs
Status: New => Confirmed
** Project changed: ecryptfs => linux (Ubuntu)
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ecryptfs fails to mount (Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into
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