Encrypted Home directory not auto mounting

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Published on 2012-03-23T21:22:19Z Indexed on 2012/03/23 23:39 UTC
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I somehow managed to break auto-mounting for my encrypted home directory.

Every time I login via SSH, I see this:

valorin@joshua:~$ ls -la
total 44
dr-x------ 3 valorin valorin  4096 2012-03-17 17:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root    root     4096 2012-03-17 11:45 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 valorin valorin    56 2012-03-08 20:37 Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop -> /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-mount-private.desktop
-rw------- 1 valorin valorin   917 2012-03-17 19:24 .bash_history
drwx------ 3 valorin valorin  4096 2012-03-16 17:58 .cache
lrwxrwxrwx 1 valorin valorin    33 2012-03-08 20:37 .ecryptfs -> /home/.ecryptfs/valorin/.ecryptfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root    21954 2012-03-08 20:35 .face
lrwxrwxrwx 1 valorin valorin    32 2012-03-08 20:37 .Private -> /home/.ecryptfs/valorin/.Private
lrwxrwxrwx 1 valorin valorin    52 2012-03-08 20:37 README.txt -> /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-mount-private.txt
-rw------- 1 root    root      703 2012-03-17 17:10 .viminfo

Any ideas what I've done, and how I can fix it?

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