Problem with EncFS after system update [SOLVED]

[marlar]

Hi,

After updating LMDE yesterday EncFS only works once after reboot. The next time I try to mount the encrypted volume I get this error:

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$ encfs --idle=1 ~/Dropbox/.crypt ~/crypt/
EncFS password: 
fusermount: failed to access mountpoint /home/marlar/crypt: Permission denied
fuse failed.  Common problems:
 - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
 - invalid options -- see usage message

Probably the problem has something to do with the error message from fusermount when I unmount the volume after the initial succesful mount:

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fusermount -u ~/crypt/
/bin/umount: unknow flag '--fake'
Usage: umount -h | -V
       umount -a [-d] [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] [-t vfstypes] [-O opts]
       umount [-d] [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] special | node...

The message above puzzles me. First, why does the message refer to /bin/umount? /usr/bin/fusermount does exist and is not a symlink. Second, why on earth does is complain about a flag --fake which I have not used at all?

Thanks in advance,
Martin

[marlar]

It turns out to be a bug with the version 2.8.5-3 of libfuse2 and fuse-utils.

I added

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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main 

to sources.list and was able to downgrade to 2.8.4-1 which solves the problem.