home partition problem after upgrade - ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page

[nicolasdiogo]

hello,

i am getting loads of entries on my logs with

Oct 9 21:02:07 mypc kernel: [ 2646.567534] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 21:02:07 mypc kernel: [ 2646.567538] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x0000000000000024])
Oct 9 21:02:07 mypc kernel: [ 2646.567579] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 21:02:07 mypc kernel: [ 2646.567581] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x0000000000000024])
Oct 9 21:02:37 mypc kernel: [ 2676.561009] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 21:02:37 mypc kernel: [ 2676.561013] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x0000000000000025])
Oct 9 21:02:37 mypc kernel: [ 2676.561054] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page; rc = [-5]
Oct 9 21:02:37 mypc kernel: [ 2676.561056] ecryptfs_writepage: Error encrypting page (upper index [0x0000000000000025])

why should be the correct action to solve this?

thanks guys,

[mdacova]

I getting these also

anyone have a idea, I started noticing them after the upgrade to 11.10 and gnome 3.2

[tekstr1der]

See Bug #870326: ecryptfs_writepage: Error

I can confirm the same. I recently experienced a flood of thousands of such ecryptfs dmesg errors, so many that I was alerted to the issue by errors regarding zero disk space remaining.

After reading up on Bug #372014, I resolved (hopefully) the issue by deleting all ecryptfs-encrypted files of zero length:

find $HOME/.Private/ -size 0c -exec ls '{}' \; | wc -l

will output the number of such files. I then proceeded to remove the listed files.

EDIT: I am still running natty 11.04, fully updated. I do use the oneiric kernel, however.

[mdacova]

find $HOME/.Private/ -size 0c -exec ls '{}' \; | wc -l

I ran the above and got 4, but no list of the files