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Old 08-07-2010
Have you tried forcing an update with updatedb while /home is mounted?
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Old 09-24-2010
I'm seeing the same problem. When I run updatedb -v I see a ton of

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/home/.ecryptfs/amanda/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fv9aOF5pARXQ8uQSc8s3L7D---/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fvmreHiRO8ISv3NjtrbnEJ.---/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fvVkjqoULx9AGiMdjH66HDgU--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fv.HiVTLSMgLaakBpqUmWC1dPmQIsHjtYsMiLcc1eB wOk-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fv49oonJtdhbPZGx6PUXza8JNRz8KhdUAoUpQGwtVE CBQ-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fvmxwOiTJtI9G9deHZFMub6qMDir8OEb0q3FUyhWN1 9Cg-
/home/.ecryptfs/amanda/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fv9aOF5pARXQ8uQSc8s3L7D---/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fvmreHiRO8ISv3NjtrbnEJ.---/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fvVkjqoULx9AGiMdjH66HDgU--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fv.HiVTLSMgLaakBpqUmWC1dPmQIsHjtYsMiLcc1eB wOk-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXZDoJEcz5WFEES5XL47XLwwqFD5c6N4n5fv49oonJtdhbPZGx6PUXza8JNRz8KhdUAoUpQGwtVE CBQ-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_E^C


---------- Post updated at 04:12 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:53 PM ----------

Solved! For me anyhow.

It looks like my last update (I'm an Ubuntu user, so Karmic to Lucid) implemented a new updatedb.conf which added "ecryptfs" to the PRUNEFS list. I took it out and my home directory is getting indexed perfectly.
 
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