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Title:
Could not find valid key in user session keyring for sig specified in mount option after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04
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/2018/09/30/Could-not-find-valid-key-in-user-session-keyring-for-sig-specified-in-mount-option-after-upgrade-from-16.04-to-18.04
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It looks like this bug first reported in Ubuntu 17.10: ecryptfs-mount-private fails to initialize ecryptfs keys
The error there is like your own:
[ 1265.695388] Could not find key with description: [<correct key ID>]
[ 1265.695393] process_request_key_err: No key
[ 1265.695394] Could not find valid key in user session keyring for sig specified in mount option: [<correct key ID>]
[ 1265.695395] One or more global auth toks could not properly register; rc = [-2]
[ 1265.695396] Error parsing options; rc = [-2]
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