Urgent Cryptswap Bug!

James Gifford james at jamesrgifford.com
Wed Oct 17 20:04:39 UTC 2012


Can replicate on dual-boot machines with encrypted home - 10.04 and 12.10.

I just thought it was a boot slowdown, didn't think anything of it
since it "works".

So this should probably be reported on the ecryptfs bugtracker, unless
it already has been.
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James Gifford
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Braden Wolfe <brad3nw0lf3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> As of last night I finished up allbeta bug testing for 12.10 beta, as
> the relase is tomorrow. Everything on i386, x32, x64, and x86 work
> fine, wth one exception:
> On AMD Single Core mobile processors, Cryptswap does not write
> properly. During the Ubuntu boot screen, it says 'Crypswap/1 is not
> present' and says I can wait to write or skip. This hapens every time
> I boot weather I execute manual control or have the system write it. I
> have not found any soloutions to this issue, and it is a serious
> security issue for encryption savvy user. Hopefully this issue can be
> resolved quickly...hope this helps!
> -Braden W.
>
> NOTE: I had this issue on 12.04 and 12.04.1 as well.
>
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>
> -Braden Wolfe
> Founder, Optixi.Com
>
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