GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582725
gnome-mount-0.8 possible race condition while mounting luks-encrypted devices
Last modified: 2012-02-28 12:29:55 UTC
Please describe the problem: I think there is a race condition or a similar problem with gnome-mount's handling of encrypted devices. Steps to reproduce: 1. There is an external HDD (USB) with two partitions, the second one encrypted with cryptsetup-luks, formatted with ext3. Nautilus correctly shows both partitions, the latter one as encrypted. 2. Click on it in Nautilus to mount it. 3. Provide the passphrase. Actual results: The partition disappears from Nautilus and is not mounted. However, the opened luks-mapping appears as /dev/mapper/luks_crypto_[...] and can be mounted manually using good old /bin/mount Expected results: Since the filesystem's label is "external" it should be mounted as /media/external Does this happen every time? Sometimes. It is less likely to happen when the directory /media/external already exists and gnome-mount instead creates the mount point /media/external_ Other information: I think this stuff worked more reliable with older versions but I'm really not sure and don't want to downgrade everything. However, I'll probably try downgrading gnome-mount when I find some time.
Adding gentoo's gnome team to CC for tracking purpose: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269426
I am using debian kernel 2.6.30 testing. This includes nautilus 2.28.1-1. Since a couple of weeks, after some updates, I have this behavior: 1) I mount (as usual) an encrypted volume file using truecrypt 2) On the desktop appears (as usual) the icon of the new drive, with the name "docs" given by the mount point "/media/docs" 3) Places reports two icons: one (correct) named "docs", which when clicked opens the right folder, and one (incorrect) named "2.1 GB Filesystem" which when clicked does nothing. 4) I mount a second encrypted volume file using truecrypt 5) On the desktop appears the second icon, but named "2.1 GB Filesystem" 6) Places reports three icons: one (correct) named "docs", and two named "2.1 GB Filesystem" Hope this helps
"gnome-mount" will not see active development anymore according to its developers (as HAL is also dead). Closing this report as WONTFIX - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.