F15 "Error mounting eCryptfs: [-5] Input/output error" on different disks

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Fri Jun 17 14:02:20 UTC 2011


On 6/17/11 6:28 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:45:01 +0200, MP wrote:
> 
>> W dniu 16 czerwca 2011 21:43 użytkownik Eric Sandeen napisał:
>>> On 6/16/11 2:37 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Do anyone noticed any problems with mounting eCryptfs recently on F15?
>>>> It seems to me unlikely that I have an I/O errors on few disks.
>>>> Especially if only eCryptfs reports them.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Anything in dmesg?
>>
>> Nothing unusual
>>
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>
> 
> In /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun 17 13:24:46 localhost mount.ecryptfs: Failed to write to the mount table

likely a result of /etc/mtab pointing to /proc/mounts now

Can you file an ecryptfs-utils bug for that?  I don't know how it'll
be fixed but it looks like an issue.

-Eric

> 
> Got that when running ecryptfs.mount for the first time on this machine:
> 
>   [...]
>   Not adding sig to user sig cache file; continuing with mount.
>   Error mounting eCryptfs: [-5] Input/output error
>   Check your system logs; visit <http://launchpad.net/ecryptfs>
> 
> The mount was successful, however, according to "mount" output.



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