nautilus is showing my encrypted lvm volume in the side pane

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I've got my root fs on unencrypted /dev/sda1 and /var /home and swap are logical volumes on an encrypted 140GB lvm volume on /dev/sda5. Generally everything works fine, but nautilus shows this 140GB volume in the side pane suggesting that it's not mounted yet and that it can be browsed (see screenshot). When I click it an error window saying "Unable to mount 140 GB LVM2 Physical Volume Not a mountable file system" appears.

It's rather low prio as it does not break anything, but just introduces some confusion.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 31 00:17:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you add a gvfs-mount -li log?

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

Sure:

morgwai@darkstorm:~$ gvfs-mount -li
Drive(0): 160 GB Hard Disk
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
  ids:
   unix-device: '/dev/sda'
  themed icons: [drive-harddisk-ata] [drive-harddisk] [drive]
  is_media_removable=0
  has_media=1
  is_media_check_automatic=0
  can_poll_for_media=0
  can_eject=0
  can_start=0
  can_stop=0
  start_stop_type=unknown
  Volume(0): 140 GB LVM2 Physical Volume
    Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
    ids:
     uuid: '274d7d07-e5c3-417e-bfab-14e4bf18608f'
     unix-device: '/dev/mapper/sda5_crypt'
    can_mount=1
    can_eject=0
    should_automount=0
Drive(1): CD/DVD Drive
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
  ids:
   unix-device: '/dev/sr0'
  themed icons: [drive-optical] [drive]
  is_media_removable=1
  has_media=0
  is_media_check_automatic=1
  can_poll_for_media=1
  can_eject=0
  can_start=0
  can_stop=0
  start_stop_type=unknown
morgwai@darkstorm:~$

[meist3r (meist3r)]

I've got the same problem with Karmic. It shows a 500GB LVM volume in my nautilus view and "Places" menu which doesn't respond to my passphrase. The system works normally and was upgraded from a Jaunty install which I set up with the Alternate CD and encrypted LVM volumes. Peculiarly it doesn't even show up in the gvfs-mount list:

System function normal, cryptsetup message and passphrase prompt during boot as usual and functional.

412XPC[maggus]:~ $ gvfs-mount -li
Volume(0): cdrom0
  Type: GUnixVolume
  ids:
   unix-device: '/dev/scd0'
  themed icons: [drive-optical] [drive]
  can_mount=1
  can_eject=1
  should_automount=1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mika M (centerspeaker)]

This bug still exists (unassigned and unsolved) in release natty on x86 32 bit.