Upgraded to 9.10, now I can't access the content in my home folder, encryptfs errors

[pleasehelpme]

Hi guys,

I'm seriously screwed. I finally decided to click on Upgrade to 9.10 from 9.04(64bit edition) and now I seriously regret it. I've lost access to all of my important files.

During the upgrade there was some error about ecryptfs, and it said something about it being ignored, and then it kept installing anyways. So I figured everything would still be alright. Well, now I've lost access to all of my home directory. When I installed ubuntu 9.04, I did so using ext4 and the option to encrypt the home directory. Everything worked perfectly until the upgrade.

Now, when I log in, I can see my home directory(and the folders) but there's nothing in them. There's a README.txt file and a "Access your private data" file in the home folder. I clicked on the access your private data thing, entered the correct password and it looked like it worked/no error message. It then returned me back to the folders, but they're still inaccessible(ie, nothing in them, but the total used space sizes are still there.) So I typed what the readme file said to do in the Terminal, and this is the result.

ecryptfs-mount-private

Enter your login passphrase:
Inserted auth tok with sig [23998f508e402f2e] into the user session keyring
open: Read-only file system
Error locking counter

That's it, and I still can't access anything. I go back in the folders and they're still blank. I really hope one of you guys can help. I've got a lot of important stuff on there that I still need access to. I had no idea that the upgrade would cause me this much stress.

Thanks a lot

[shaker25]

might want to try to run:
sudo nautilus or
sudo dolphin from the terminal and see if you can first correct the permissions to the folder.

you might *cross fingers* be able to disable encryption

second thing to try is this wiki

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EncryptedPrivateDirectory
Look for section "Outstanding Issues"
specifically "mainInclusionkeyUtils"
There's a link - you might find a tool that will de-encrypt.