[WISH] Merge patch for LUKS support from SuSE

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Binary package hint: kdebase

According to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113629 SuSE has added a patch so that LUKS volume can be mounted through the GUI: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/2007-01/msg00540.html (note that the bug seems to change unrelated things, the important bit is at the bottom).

Further information can also be found here: http://strony.aster.pl/tanis/kde_luks/

I'd like it very much if that could make it into Gutsy, as Gnome has had LUKS support for a while now...

[Martin Böhm (martin.bohm)]

Thank you for your merge request. I've changed the importance to "Wishlist".

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

In process, test package at https://edge.launchpad.net/~jpatrick/+archive

Patch from SuSE has been pushed to Bzr repo.

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Possibly better patch from KDE Bugs:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113629#c26

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Here is a debdiff with support from the KDE Bugs page above.

Test packages for Gutsy in my PPA.

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Above debdiff has gutsy in changelog. Here's the corrected hardy one.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

kdebase (4:3.5.8-2ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Merge with Debian for consolekit patch, closes LP: #172281

  [ Jonathan Patrick Davies ]
  * Dropped kubuntu_9912_enable_crypto.diff replaced by below.
  * Added kubuntu_9913_kiomedialuks.diff, adds support for LUKS directly into
    media KIO, thanks to Jan Klötzke. (LP: #128863)
  * Added icons for LUKS devices (debian/img/medialuks/) and added rules to make
    and remove them in debian/rules.
  * Added dependency of cryptsetup to kdebase-kio-plugins.

kdebase (4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  +++ Changes by Fathi Boudra:

  * Remove /usr/bin/X11 from KDM's default session path. (Closes: 441392)
  * Add support for ConsoleKit. Thanks to Michael Biebl, William Jon McCann and
    Kevin Kofler. (Closes: #450603)

  +++ Changes by Armin Berres:

  * Split off kdebase-bin-kde3 which contains executables which can be provided by
    KDE3 or KDE4.

  +++ Changes by Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez:

  * Add dependence of konqueror-nsplugins on konqueror. (Closes: #446998)
  * Add debconf template translations into fi by Esko Arajärvi (Closes: #447055)

 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:23:12 +0000

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

At least jpatrick's back port to gutsy doesn't reallywork. It detects the
drives to be encrypted properly (which is a step in the right direction for
sure), offers to mount them but then it gets stuck not knowing what to do to
encrypt it, I guess.

Specifically, it tells me it wants to open a file of mime type
"media/removable_unmounted_encrypted"
but has no helper application associated to that.

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Yes, I fixed that in a later upload. I forgot the new .desktop files the patch created. This has been fixed in Hardy see:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2007-November/002393.html

[Tuxist (jan-koester)]

I got this error message under hardy when I start kryptomedia under console with kryptomedia /dev/sdd4:

kryptomedia: slotDialogError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod, Method "Setup" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto" doesn't exist
kryptomedia: )

I usea a zip device.

[Adam Williamson (awilliamson)]

Just to record that obviously this functionality is lost with the switch to KDE 4, as is shown by #253768.