Can't create Encrypted device with gnome-disk-utility

[Achim]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

If I try to encrypt my usb stick with gnome-disk-utilitiys I get the following error:

'Error creating partition'
Details: 'Error starting job: Failed to execute child process "cryptsetup" (No such file or directory)'

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

gnome-disk-utility:
  Installiert: 0.5-0ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 0.5-0ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.5-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
devicekit-disks:
  Installiert: 006-0ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 006-0ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 006-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgdu0:
  Installiert: 0.5-0ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 0.5-0ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.5-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Michael-250 (michael-250)]

It seems that the package cryptsetup is missing in the standard installation. After installing that package I didn't get the 'No such file or directory' error anymore.

But then I got another error msg 'Error creating partition: timeout (10s) waiting for partition to show up'. Any hints?

[Achim (ach1m)]

The problem has been fixed with a new upstream release.

devicekit-disks (007-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Bug 23761 – Some leaks
    - Bug 23541 – PartitionTableCreate method times out
    - Bug 22914 – Require password to eject a CD or DVD mounted by the same user
    - Rework ATA SMART handling
    - Also be paranoid about the UUID containing '/' characters
    - Use WindowsStyleCaps for property names
    - Bug 23829 – Undefined value in partutil.c
    - Bug 23828 – Undefined value in umount-devkit.c
    - Bug 23827 – Undefined value
    - Bug 23826 – NULL dereference
    - Bug 23825 – Leak in update_info_mount_state
    - Bug 23824 – Unused variable
    - Bug 23823 – NULL dereference
    - Bug 23764 – Small leak in update_drive_properties_from_sysfs
    - Bug 23762 – Fix typo
    - Bug 23579 – Must allow DBus Properties interface for g-d-u to work
    - Bug 23926 – Error creating partition
  * Drop all our patches, all applied upstream.
  * debian/control: Drop libsqlite3-dev build dependency, not needed any more.
  * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes needed).
  * debian/control: Add Breaks to GDU libraries << 2.28, since the D-BUS API
    changed.

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:51:16 +0200

[Jake Wells (jake-e-wells)]

On my 10.10 desktop remix I got this error message: Error creating partition'
Details: 'Error starting job: Failed to execute child process "cryptsetup" (No such file or directory)'

[Achim (ach1m)]

Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 04:58 +0000 schrieb Jake Wells:
> On my 10.10 desktop remix I got this error message: Error creating partition'
> Details: 'Error starting job: Failed to execute child process "cryptsetup" (No such file or directory)'

Have you installed cryptsetup?

$ sudo apt-get install cryptsetup

In an ideal world packagekit/aptdaemon would ask if it should install
cryptsetup.

Regards
Achim

[Mark Edgington (edgimar)]

Why is this bug marked as fixed? The reported behavior (unclear error message) still occurs, if cryptsetup is not installed (at least on Ubuntu 10.04).

Why not just add cryptsetup as a package-dependency of gnome-disk-utility?

[Patrick Dawkins (pjcdawkins)]

+1 Mark Edgington: this bug has not been fixed in 11.04

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Could you please open a new bug report then? Thanks.