Since yesterday I've noticed this very weird behavior, where my home folder suddenly gets encrypted during runtime (and thus causing all weird side effects and makes my computer unusable), and the only files visible in my home folder are the Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop and README.txt.
It sometimes happens some minutes after boot, sometimes after several hours. A reboot does fix the problem temporarily, until it happens again.
(I had enabled home folder encryption at installation when I installed it a few months ago, but never had my home folder suddenly get encrypted at runtime).
I could not make out any specific trigger as to when/why it happens - it's always in the midst of using my system regularly, and could not make out any telling message in /var/log/syslog.
I had tried to reset my system via Timeshift to the state of 1st of April, but it did not resolve the problem, so I'm out of ideas now.
Any ideas on how to debug this further? (Any specific logs I could try to read?)
Thank you!
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$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 info: mate-panel wm: marco 1.24.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Timi product: TM1607 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis:
type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Timi model: TM1607 v: MP serial: <filter> UEFI: INSYDE
v: XMAKB200P0200 date: 11/02/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 9.1 Wh condition: 21.7/36.5 Wh (60%) volts: 7.5/7.6
model: N/A type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core m3-7Y30 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Amber Lake rev: 9 L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 12799
Speed: 1021 MHz min/max: 400/2600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 700 2: 700
3: 700 4: 701
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 615 vendor: Xiaomi driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:591e
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
compositor: marco v: 1.24.0 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 615 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Xiaomi
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-70-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3040
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fd
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 352.13 GiB used: 170.35 GiB (48.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXE7
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZNTY128HDHP-00000 size: 119.24 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 100Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 112.55 GiB used: 85.16 GiB (75.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.89 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://mirror.netcologne.de/linuxmint/packages ulyana main upstream import backport
2: deb http://mirror.netcologne.de/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://mirror.netcologne.de/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://mirror.netcologne.de/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.riot.im/debian/ default main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
Info:
Processes: 198 Uptime: 8m Memory: 3.73 GiB used: 1.37 GiB (36.7%)
Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.