Can't mount veracrypt volumes

[Daniel Jenkins]

Using mount from nautilus (open with) or right from Gnome Disk, the file in question is "mounted" as a loop device. Therefore, no opening of that container nor questions about how to open the file.

This is Ubuntu 18.10 from 18.04. Already tried 18.10 on a VM (Live session) and Gnome on Xorg & Wayland.

Also tryed Tail in order to see the Veracrypt property working.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.30.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Nov 1 18:35:17 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-08 (146 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-30 (2 days ago)

[Daniel Jenkins (jeukel)]

I'm just trying the GUI way not the CLI way (which I'm not familiar with.)

[Daniel Jenkins (jeukel)]

Ubuntu 20.04 one of the main feature was to mount Veracrypt volumes with Gnome disk... Mmm... 2 years later and noup.

Tails had solve this since that time.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, it sounds similar to what is discussed on https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/589

Did you try to create a /etc/udisks2/tcrypt.conf ?

[Daniel Jenkins (jeukel)]

Thanks Sebastien. That clarified the panorama.

After the creation of the file (and a reboot) gnome-disks do see if there is a partition on any HD that has some resemblance to a veracrypt encryption and if the pass was saved under "seahorse" it opens it up automatically. Manually I get the same result (encrypted container files).

Now the question is why this feature was added like a main upgrade if that involve on the creation of a obscure file? Anyways. Closing the thread.