the format, it does nothing!

[Nick Moffitt]

I recently bought a new USB thumb drive, and popped it in to my computer to LUKS it up. I clicked the little "eject" sigil next to its name in nautilus, and then right-clicked on its sidebar entry and chose "format". I get asked all the relevant information, and I click format. Then I confirm.

  The rest is silence.

I'm not sure why nothing happens, exactly, but I can't find any new icons on my unity dock thingy, can't find any mkfs processes running, and in fact basically the request to format seems to have actually been completely ignored.

Same thing happens when I choose pure ext4 without the LUKS crypto.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 26 09:27:57 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'813x712+153+124'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'197'
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-17 (38 days ago)

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

I ran gnome-disks and it did the right thing, using many of the same dialogs.

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

Okay, that reassignment is fair enough, but realize that it *worked* when I used pure gnome-disk-utility's interface. It was Nautilus's integration with gnome-disk-utility that seemed to fail.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[franglais.125 (franglais.125-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello, I can confirm this. I tried creating a LUKS+Ext4 partition on an external hard-drive, using the nautilus integration. I am on Ubuntu 13.10, 64-bit.
I am able to:
- select the drive (to select "Format...")
- select the filesystem type (LUKS+Ext4)
- choose a password
- re-enter it correctly
- click on the "Format" box.

A dialog then tells me that if I proceed all the data in the disk will be lost (as it should be), so I proceed. But then, nothing happens! No error dialog, no confirmation dialog, nothing whatsoever...

However, using the gnome disk utilities I have no problem, and the formatting is a success.