EncFS idle feature not working
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Nautilus |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| encfs (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: encfs
I'm trying to use the idle feature of encfs but it doesn't work.
encfs version:
encfs versione 1.3.2
uname -a
Linux pico 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l
Running encfs foreground and looking at the source, I find that the idle thread
stops at the following call of the pthread_
00514 pthread_
00515 &ctx->wakeupMutex, &wakeupTime );
(these are lines of main.cpp source of encfs package I found here:
http://
The function doesn't exit after the timeout I gived by command line options.
Maybe it stops while sleeping (__libc_nanosleep) or can't lock the mutex before exiting.
I think it's a glibc problem or a lower level one.
Now I'm trying to wait two hours to see if it's a timezone problem (UTC vs. GMT+2).
| Stephen Crowley (crow-crowlogic) wrote | #1 |
| Jesse (sbjesse) wrote | #2 |
| Jesse (sbjesse) wrote | #3 |
| C Michal (michal-physics) wrote | #4 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in encfs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
I believe the problem is that 'idle cycle count' is reset due to some loop problem where encfs itself acceses the filesystem repeatedly without end, thus causing the usage to reset once a second or more.
user@machine:~$ cat bug268557.log | grep -i idle
12:05:13 (main.cpp:437) starting idle monitoring thread
12:05:13 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 1, timeout after 60
12:05:23 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 0, timeout after 60
12:05:33 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 0, timeout after 60
12:05:43 (main.cpp:704) idle cycle count: 0, timeout after 60
12:05:48 (main.cpp:471) joining with idle monitoring thread
12:05:48 (main.cpp:717) Idle monitoring thread exiting
It loops like this ad infinitum
12:05:45 (Context.cpp:119) no node found for /
12:05:45 (MACFileIO.cpp:68) fs block size = 1024, macBytes = 8, randBytes = 0
12:05:45 (FileNode.cpp:140) calling setIV on (null)
12:05:45 (DirNode.cpp:736) created FileNode for /home/user/.encdir/
12:05:45 (encfs.cpp:133) getattr /home/user/.encdir/
12:05:46 (encfs.cpp:684) doing statfs of /home/user/.encdir
12:05:46 (encfs.cpp:684) doing statfs of /home/user/.encdir