Hi there, I made a huge mistake and I need some help. I was running Linux Mint 17 (based on Ubuntu 14.04) with an encrypted home directory (using eCryptfs). /home and / were on separated partitions. Last week I replaced Mint by Debian. I formatted the / partition and kept the /home one. Now I can't decrypt my data. :/ So I installed the ecryptfs-utils package. "ecryptfs-mount-private" returns: Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs ERROR: Your passphrase is incorrect "/var/log/syslog" contains: ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring: Incorrect wrapping key for file [/home/login/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase] ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring: Error attempting to unwrap passphrase from file [/home/login/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase]; rc = [-5] "ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase /home/.ecryptfs/login/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase" returns: Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs To be sure I reinstalled the original Linux Mint on the / partition, using the same login:password as before my misfortune. Same results. I'm ABSOLUTELY sure that I'm using the same login and password than last week. I installed Linux Mint 17 on June 2014; the ecryptfs-utils version should have been "104-0ubuntu1". So questions are: 1) What happened? Did I erase a configuration file I shouldn't? I would like to understand what operation occurred to be in that unpleasant situation? 2) What are my options? It may involve some C development if needed. According to you, is there a way to brute force something? Or a more intelligent solution, starting with sit down, have a tea and think. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading. Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
