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Bug 269426 - gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8 possible race condition while mounting luks-encrypted devices
Summary: gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8 possible race condition while mounting luks-encryp...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
URL: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cg...
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Depends on: 349012
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Reported: 2009-05-11 16:33 UTC by Florian Philipp
Modified: 2011-01-26 20:18 UTC (History)
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Description Florian Philipp 2009-05-11 16:33:05 UTC
I think there is a race condition or a similar problem with gnome-mount's handling of encrypted devices.


Reproducible: Sometimes

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.

Expected Results:  
Since the filesystem's label is "external" it should be mounted as /media/external

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.

The problem did not appear (yet) when there already existed a directory /media/external and Gnome instead had to create a directory /media/external_ to mount it. That's why I think it's a race condition.
Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-14 22:01:35 UTC
It sound like this is really something you'd ask to upstream. Please report there and paste the URL here so we can keep track of the discussion.
Comment 2 Florian Philipp 2009-05-15 08:22:26 UTC
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582725
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-26 20:18:11 UTC
luks as in _linux_ unified... and gnome-mount has only KEYWORDS="~x86-fbsd" now, closing as wontfix.