[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#420136: hal: gnome-mount fails to mount encrypted USB key

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Thu Sep 11 20:24:59 UTC 2008


Michael Biebl wrote:
> Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>   
>> It doesn't seem to work for me.  These are the steps I take to create my
>> encrypted partition:
>>
>>  # cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdc
>>  # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc silly
>>  # mkfs.ext3 -L silly /dev/mapper/silly
>>  # cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/silly
>>
>> Then I unplug the USB stick and plug it in again.  I'm presented with a
>> dialogue, but the encrypted filesystem isn't mounted.
>>
>> I have no problems manually mounting the filesystem.
>>
>> Also, if I create a partition (say /dev/sdc1) and create an encrypted
>> filesystem on the partition then it's mounted as expected.
>>
>>     
>
> I'd say this is a different issue.
> Likely related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495485
>   

How right you are.  Then I believe my original problem is solved, since
I'm mounting (partitioned) encrypted USB keys without any problems.

/M

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