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System information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10
$ apt-cache policy udev
udev:
Installed: 242-7ubuntu3.7
Candidate: 242-7ubuntu3.7
Version table:
*** 242-7ubuntu3.7 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
242-7ubuntu3.6 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security/main amd64 Packages
242-7ubuntu3 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
I have a USB3 external SSD (VID/PID is xxxx/xxxx). The whole device is
encrypted (ie /dev/sdc is an encrypted LUKS volume) and the encrypted
volume contains an LVM2 physical volume, a volume group called "vms" and
two logical volumes.
If I plug it into a booted system, everything works as expected. I'm
prompted for the volume password, the volume is unlocked and LVM then
maps the logical volumes:
$ ls -l /dev/mapper
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 23 11:49 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:51
luks-5e586d40-5f49-4c33-8f73-22da39d2728a -> ../dm-3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:49 nvme0n1p3_crypt -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:49 vgubuntu-root -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:49 vgubuntu-swap_1 -> ../dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:51 vms-veeabuild -> ../dm-4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:51 vms-veea--mirror -> ../dm-5
(The volumes "vms-*" are the ones on the external disk). I can mount
the volumes and use them.
If I'm careful to unmount the LVM volumes correctly and lock the disks,
everything works as expected:
$ vgchange -a n vms
0 logical volume(s) in volume group "vms" now active
$ sudo udisksctl lock -b /dev/sdc
Locked /dev/sdc.
I then unplug the disk and repeat the process - everything works. If,
for whatever reason, the device gets unplugged without the proper
cleanup, things get messy:
$ ls -l /dev/mapper
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 23 11:49 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 12:04
luks-5e586d40-5f49-4c33-8f73-22da39d2728a -> ../dm-3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:49 nvme0n1p3_crypt -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:49 vgubuntu-root -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 11:49 vgubuntu-swap_1 -> ../dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 12:04 vms-veeabuild -> ../dm-4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 23 12:04 vms-veea--mirror -> ../dm-5
Note that the "vms-*" volumes are still there.
$ ls -l /dev/dm-*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Apr 23 11:49 /dev/dm-0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 Apr 23 11:49 /dev/dm-1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 2 Apr 23 11:49 /dev/dm-2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 3 Apr 23 12:04 /dev/dm-3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 4 Apr 23 12:04 /dev/dm-4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 5 Apr 23 12:04 /dev/dm-5
/dev/dm-* still exists.
However, sdc has been removed:
$ ls -l /dev/sdc
ls: cannot access '/dev/sdc': No such file or directory
If I then plug the disk in again, I'm again prompted for the passphrase
and the disk is mapped to /dev/sdd (not /dev/sdc like previous times).
If I try to mount one of the volumes:
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/vms-veeabuild mnt2
mount: /home/tkcook/mnt2: can't read superblock on /dev/mapper/vms-veeabuild.
Something is not getting cleaned up when the disk is forcibly removed.
There doesn't seem to be any way to clean up from here; vgchange can't
deactivate the volume group and udisksctl can't lock the LUKS volume.
The only way I've found of using the disk again is to reboot (!)
I'm raising this on the udev package but that is a bit of a guess; I'm
assuming this is udev not processing the disconnection event correctly
(though since I can't find a way of cleaning this up, it's not clear
what it could do).
** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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USB external disks are not torn down correctly when they are unplugged
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1874424
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