Feature request: Graphical method to mount selected drives within an encrypted LVM (made by altrnate installer)

Bug #549629 reported by komputes
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

This bug is a request for a graphical method to mount selected drives within an encrypted LVM (made by alternate installer).

What currently happens with LVM is that it is shown as two drives. One contains all the /boot file and is unprotected. The other (which is larger) contains my root drive (/) and my swap which are both encrypted.

Nautilus presents it as:
X.X GB Encrypted

You can see this on the side pane or on the places menu, however, you cannot mount it from nautilus. This improvement should only affecting a LVM disk when booting from another disk (not when it is itself mounted and used as the system). More on that in Bug #441211 - Do not show LUKS devices of internal mounted disks.

Currently what happens when clicking on the disk is the following error message shows up:

Unable to mount X.X GB Encrypted
Error starting job: Failed to execute child process "cryptsetup" (No such file or directory)

What I expect, or would like to happen:
When booting from a disk other then the one which is LVM setup (such as another partition, usb, Live CD), you would be presented with X.X GB Encrypted. Once you unlock the LVM, all the drives within it (with filesystems capable of being mounted) would be presented in the nautilus. The user can then select individual drives to mount them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.29.92.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 27 11:03:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

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komputes (komputes) wrote :
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komputes (komputes) wrote :
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

komputes, this doesn't seem very straightforward to fix for me: LVM encrypted devices aren't exactly visible as to what partitions are set up within them until they are "opened" by entering the passphrase. Then you'd still have to choose between multiple partitions that could be inside for which to mount.

I think this would be better reported as a blueprint to be discussed during the next UDS...

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Ads20000 (ads20000) wrote :

Is this bug still present in a supported Ubuntu release?

Ads20000 (ads20000)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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