Bug#1025472: gnome-disk-utility: Formatting and overwriting a partition does not show a progress meter

[Lars Luthman]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 3.38.2-1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: deb-bugs at larsluthman.net

Dear Maintainer,

I started formatting an external HDD using the GNOME Disks utility. I
selected the 'overwrite' option since I was formatting it as an encrypted
LUKS partition with a BTRFS filesystem inside, and I wanted the whole
partition filled with random data to avoid leaking information. The operation
started, a small animated wheel was shown next to the HDD in the list of
disks to show that the operation was ongoing, but no other progress
information or even information about what exactly the operation was doing
was shown. I expected at least some sort of progress bar - it would have
been nice to have since the operation ended up taking more than 22 hours.

I looked around in the D-Bus interface for UDisks2 and found an object
corresponding to the ongoing operation, named /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/jobs/24.
It had an interface named org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Job that had properties
named Progress and ExpectedEndTime, among others, that could be used to
construct a progress meter. GNOME Disks should use those properties to
display progress information to the user.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.38.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.36.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.33-1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-5
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-7
ii  libdvdread8                                  6.1.1-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.70.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.24-4+deb11u2
ii  liblzma5                                     5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.9-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.48.10+ds1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.48.10+ds1-1
ii  libpwquality1                                1.4.4-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.20.4-2
ii  libsystemd0                                  247.3-7+deb11u1
ii  libudisks2-0                                 2.9.2-2+deb11u1
ii  udisks2                                      2.9.2-2+deb11u1

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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