Error Formatting luks device

[Jim]

Application Gnome Disks

When trying to format an encrypted drive I get this error:

Error formatting volume

Error creating the luks device:The function 'bd_crypto_luks_format_blob' called, but not implemented! (udisks-error-quark,0)

1. Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release: 18.04

2. GNOME Disks 3.28.0-1ubuntu1

3. LUKS formatting disk should work

4. error message when opting for password protect volume (LUKS) utilizing format volume

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 7 09:46:19 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-12 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180311)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux)]

This also affects the case when you want to Open an encrypted disk/usb that was LUKS encrypted on another Linux system (Debian/Ubuntu).
It cannot Open it - Mount it, returning a similar error.

The function 'bd_crypto_luks_open_blob' called, but not implemented! (udisks-error-quark,0)

This only affects the GUI version. You can format or mount a LUKS disk/usb from the command line.

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

Same problem here! Any workarounds?

Time to go fscrypt instead?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jesse (sbjesse)]

I have an installation of Xenial (16.04 LTS) which doesn't have this bug (gnome-disk-utility version 3.18). After upgrading to 18.04 (gnome disk version 3.28) I start seeing this bug. It's not a showstopper as I know my way through the command line, but still, I spend 60% of my time on macOS and having a common task such as LUKS + ext4 done through a graphical interface is much appreciated

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does it work if you install libblockdev-crypto2 ?

[Russ (russ-t)]

Hi Sebastien, just gave that a try and it didn't help for me. Thank you

[Jesse (sbjesse)]

Hi Sebastien, yeah actually I did it right after reporting this bug. Installing libblockdev-crypto2 and restarting udisks2 service made it work!

Do you think we should categorize this under udisks2?

[N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux)]

I can confirm what Sebastien proposed. Installing libblockdev-crypto2 and restarting the udisks2.service did the trick.
Also it maybe worth mention that in my case the installation of Ubuntu 18.04(beta2) performed with the new "minimal installation" option.

[dino99 (9d9)]

udisks2 2.7.6-2ubuntu6 "suggests" libblockdev-crypto2;

that needs to be set to "recommends" at least.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It's being made a recommend but that was blocked on some MIRs to be reviewed/accepted

[Anonymous (unquoteveracity-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm that this fix works on Ubuntu 20.04. To reiterate:

sudo apt install libblockdev-crypto2
sudo service udisks2 restart