Ubuntu
udisks2 package

  1. Bug #1757321
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 1757321

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Agustin Covarrubias (agucova) wrote :

Even in 2019 and Ubuntu 18.10 fully updated, I'm getting the exact same error (on gnome-disks and nautilus)

> "Error unlocking /dev/sdb3: Failed to activate device: Operation not permitted (udisks-error-quark, 0)".

The package libblockdev-crypto2 was already installed and installing libblockdev-crypto-dev (and rebooting) didn't help.

Using udisksctl didn't help either:
> udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb3
> Passphrase:
> Error unlocking /dev/sdb3: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error unlocking
> /dev/sdb3: Failed to activate device: Operation not permitted