You are completely right: I seem to encounter a completely different problem than I expected: My system setup is the following: - /dev/sda is a hard disk (2 partitions) comtaining my encrypted home folder and my swap partition. - /dev/sdb is a small SSD containing my system (/dev/sdb1) and a folder I want to keep backups in just for the case my hard disk breaks.
The memory stick I tried to verify the problem with before I reported this bug seems to be severely broken - and it clearly is a hardware fault. Did try your commands with one of my girlfriend's memory stick and the stick was mounted. Then I unmounted the stick, re-inserted it to the computer and after typing in the passphrase it worked, either. So I formatted /dev/sdb2 using luksformat - and got the following results: udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb2 Passphrase: Error unlocking /dev/sdb2: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.NotAuthorized: Not authorized to perform operation gunter@lore:~$ sudo udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb2 Passphrase: Unlocked /dev/sdb2 as /dev/dm-1. Having your commands as a starting point debugging the problem further was easy: 1.) The system claims to want a passphrase twice but for mounting my hard disk partition it needs both my login passwort and the partition's passphrase. When I insert the stick only the passphrase is needed. 2.) After partitioning the stick and formatting its second partition with an ext4 filesystem using luksformat (the first partition is unencrypted ext4) I still don't need my password to mount the stick. So the problem doesn't seem to be that I formatted the second partition using luksformat. This means my problem was that for mounting a encrypted hard disk partition my password is needed as well as the luks passphrase whereas for a stick only the latter is needed. A week before i wrote the bug report this wasn't the case. not only asking me for the passphrase of the device ** Summary changed: - Cannot mount encrypted devices + Mounting encrypted hard disk partitions now asks for the root password. ** Description changed: The default mount point for memory sticks, sd cards etc. has changed from /media/<filesystemlabel> to /run/<username>/media/<filesystemlabel>. At the same time my encrypted - media stopped being mounted. I still get prompted for the password, - though. Once by the gnome-shell and once by a dialog. Did try to format - a device using luksformat to double-check that both gnome-keyring and I - don't suffer a password-specific amnesia but even with a known-good - password I get the same result. + hard disk partition (formatted with luksformat) started asking for my + login password in order to be mounted. - Encrypted home directories are not affected as should be encrypted - system partitions. + If this is the desired behavior from now on please feel free to close + the bug as "invalid". ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gvfs-bin 1.13.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.8-generic 3.4.0 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu May 31 23:28:22 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: gvfs UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007149 Title: Mounting encrypted hard disk partitions now asks for the root password. Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The default mount point for memory sticks, sd cards etc. has changed from /media/<filesystemlabel> to /run/<username>/media/<filesystemlabel>. At the same time my encrypted hard disk partition (formatted with luksformat) started asking for my login password in order to be mounted. If this is the desired behavior from now on please feel free to close the bug as "invalid". ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gvfs-bin 1.13.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.8-generic 3.4.0 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu May 31 23:28:22 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: gvfs UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1007149/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
