Comment 69 for bug 269215

I think this article explains what's going on.

http://www.kaijanmaki.net/blog/2009/10/26/recovering-files-from-ecryptfs-encrypted-home/

I would recommend that this go in the Ubuntu documentation for any further
releases.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Richard Garrett <email address hidden>wrote:

> I can no longer bring up the terminal.
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> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Richard Garrett <email address hidden>wrote:
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>> Update: that didn't quite do it. I got the secondary profile up and
>> running perfectly, but the primary still gives the errors. I get to a
>> terminal in the primary profile by waiting for a window to popup, asking me
>> to update my encryption passphrase (which I never had before). It lets me
>> run "ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase" and opens a terminal for me. From there, I
>> can only run "sudo gnome-panel", and I'm in the root profile. The system was
>> updated from the secondary profile, and restarting the primary profile
>> continues the usual error messages.
>>
>> What else to try?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Richard Garrett <email address hidden>wrote:
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>>> Oh wow. I think that did it. Consider yourself a hero, Harmeet.
>>>
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>>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Harmeet <email address hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> xdaikatanax
>>>>
>>>> I had the same problem. This is what I did -
>>>>
>>>> Press Alt+Ctrl+T, this will bring a terminal window. Run "gnome-panel",
>>>> if it gives error, then run like "sudo gnome-panel". This will bring up
>>>> all the panels and menus. Then update the system and reboot. After
>>>> update and reboot, you should be fine!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Harmeet
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> There is a problem with the configuration server.
>>>> (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269215
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>>>> of the bug.
>>>>
>>>> Status in “gconf” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>>>>
>>>> Bug description:
>>>> Intrepid Ibex Alpha 5 64bit, All updates applied.
>>>> Been getting this error after the log-in screen, after doing updates
>>>> yesterday.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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