5th March 2017, 9:23
(This post was last modified: 6th March 2017, 2:12 by kdemeoz.
Edit Reason: Strikeout technical error; give comment.
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Several repeat attempts to install, with encrypted /home, all failed with same error. Each time i tried tweaking some settings here & there, & also one time in the Live session prior to the install attempt, i launched KDE Partition Manager & vaporised my original eCryptFS-/DATA partition in case LUKS was getting sulky over that [completely illogical possibility, but then the whole failure scenario was silly anyway]. Of course it did not help.
The only way i finally completed the n'th installation iteration was, exasperatingly, to abandon the /home encryption & make it standard ext4. Is Calamares sponsored by NSA, perchance? ;-)
I'll now post-install create the encryption with eCryptFS, but this is annoying as, contrary to the nice way Ubiquity used to do it, this way does not now encrypt /home itself, but creates an encrypted .private area [partition? directory? volume?] within it... effective, but less elegant [eg, all data paths now become a little longer].
EDIT: I've struck out that text as i discovered i was incorrect. In fact the post-install eCryptFS procedure works well & creates a "normal" encrypted /home structure.
On a positive note, kudos to the Maui Devs for the handy boot-menu 3rd option to jump into BIOS... cute.
The only way i finally completed the n'th installation iteration was, exasperatingly, to abandon the /home encryption & make it standard ext4. Is Calamares sponsored by NSA, perchance? ;-)
I'll now post-install create the encryption with eCryptFS, but this is annoying as, contrary to the nice way Ubiquity used to do it, this way does not now encrypt /home itself, but creates an encrypted .private area [partition? directory? volume?] within it... effective, but less elegant [eg, all data paths now become a little longer].
EDIT: I've struck out that text as i discovered i was incorrect. In fact the post-install eCryptFS procedure works well & creates a "normal" encrypted /home structure.
On a positive note, kudos to the Maui Devs for the handy boot-menu 3rd option to jump into BIOS... cute.