[Bug 39213] Luks encrypted partitions are not recongnized and not mountable

[ClemensBier]

Public bug reported:

Affects: gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Situation:
Fresh dist-upgrade from Breezy on April, 10th.

Installed versions:
ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-volume-manager
gnome-volume-manager:
  Installed: 1.5.15-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1.5.15-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.15-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
        500 file: dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy pmount
pmount:
  Installed: 0.9.9-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.9-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.9-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
        500 file: dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Problem description:
Plugging a removable device such as a USB stick with a LUKS encrypted partition
will cause no reaction from the system. The Breezy release recongized the encrypted and prompted the user via dialog to enter the password to decrypt the partition.
In dapper, there is no feedback of this kind any more. When using the disk mounter applet in GNOME, the LUKS partition appears and you can click on the context menu entry "Mount device" but nothing happens.
In fact the following processes are running:
 
16679 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage
16680 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage
16702 pts/0    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/pmount-hal /dev/sdc3
16704 pts/0    S+     0:00 pmount --exec /dev/sdc3 usbdisk-1
16706 pts/0    SL+    0:00 /sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc3 _dev_sdc3

Running the command

/usr/bin/pmount-hal /dev/sdc3

in a terminal will prompt for the password and mount successfully the
partition.

It looks as if the code that should open the password dialog for the
user is broken.

I confirm that the wanted behavior works in Breezy.
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Luks encrypted partitions are not recongnized and not mountable
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39213