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 Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1007149/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
