Error encrypted private directory is not setup properly

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Asked 5 years, 10 months ago. Active 2 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 8k times. However, as soon as I do that, I get an error that says: Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds.

If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean there is some installation problem, or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem. Try to recover this directory? INFO: It should be 32 characters long, consisting of [] and [a-f].

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The error messages all say "Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs". Have you? And was there anything relevant? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Active 1 year, 7 months ago.

Viewed 16k times. Improve this question. Anonymous I'm not sure that's the best way to go about it. Then after reinstalling you just enter the password and transfer everything back? This is what I do and it works perfectly. I can't even get the drive to mount, so even if i do that i would have to eventually set it up again to auto unlock every time i log in which i would much rather be done for me , but if i cant even get the drive to mount because ecryptfs-recover-private or ecryptfs-mount-private doesn't work, then either solution wont work Guess I'm confused.

You said you are 'trying to reinstall, but I want to backup my encrypted home first'. Did you reinstall before backing up? If yes, you may have lost some or all of your data, depending on your partitioning scheme.

If no, what is the exact step in the process you are stuck at? I'd like to help but I don't have a good understanding of the problem. I have an external 1tb drive that i just want to copy all of my files on my encrypted home directory to, reinstall to my main hard drive , and then copy all my files back over. But i can't seem to access said encrypted files.

The guy who wrote ecryptfs says to use the command ecryptfs-recover-private in his blog post here: blog. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Private The command is supposed to recurse and find that folder for you, but I was impatient and gave it my home folder.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Can't access my home directory "Encrypted private directory is not setup properly" Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 8 months ago. Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 24k times. Improve this question. EXbob EXbob 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I had a similar issue. Improve this answer.