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[gutsy] [regression] LUKS automount fails

Bug #155020 reported by Fridtjof Busse on 2007-10-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #148003: mounting Luks encrypted USB-HDD does not work reliably. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-mount (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

If you plug in an encrypted volume (LUKS), gutsy ask for the passphrase and opens the volume under /dev/mapper/luks_crypto_$id.
But rather than mounting the decrypted volume, gutsy does nothing, you have to mount the volume manually via commandline. It worked very well on feisty.
Nothing unusual in /var/log/daemon other than lots of "New device added" from HAL.

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Peter Wainwright (prw) wrote on 2007-12-07:

Looks like Bug #148003.

IMHO, it's a race between udev and cryptsetup (libdevmapper).

I "fixed" it by removing /etc/udev/rules.d/65-dmsetup.rules.

This file seems to have been introduced by a recent Ubuntu patch. Presumably there was a good reason for it, but it causes havoc.

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Thorsten Bonck (bonck-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-02-05:

I'm able to reproduce this bug under hardy alpha 4.
Removal of /etc/udev/rules.d/65-dmsetup.rules could solve the problems of automount, but also could render your system unbootable after an initramfs-update (see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/148003/comments/33)