with the two last updated kernels 2.6.24.3-12 and ...-34, gnome no longer mounts my luks encrypted USB disks. Everything works with 2.6.23-137. It also works to mount the devices by hand. What actually works, is that the /dev/mapper/luks_crypto_114e0067-d68a-4909-b855-6513959ca9c1 node is automatically created whenever I connect the USB disk. But the system doesn't continue to mount this device. It works to simply mount it by hand. In other words, the setting up of the mapper file (and the usage of the key from gnome keyring) works. I tried to investigate what differs between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24, and it seems that the output from hal-device is significantly different. I attach the differing sections below. The rest of the system is up-to-date as of 2008-03-21
Created attachment 298809 [details] output from kernel 2.6.23
Created attachment 298810 [details] output from hal-deveice on kernel 2.6.24
Please try 2.6.24.3-50
nothing changed with *-50. This was a complete shot in the dark, wasn't it :-)
one more piece of information: nautilus (in the computer view) shows the volume but it's not automounted. Clicking on the volume to force it to mount will result in the volume to simply vanish from the view without any error popup or the like. Of course it's also not mounted...
This is still the case with Fedora 9. Actually it startet to work again with the latest kernels under Fedora 8, but I am no longer sure if it really worked reliable and reproducible... unfortunately I no longer have the Fedora 8 installation (for obvious reasons...). The situation now is that it occasionally but very, very seldom actually works - but even when it works, unmounting and re-inserting the USB disk will not work again. It seems that it is also somehow hardware dependent, as another machine in the office didn't seem to have this problem. If someone would tell me what kind of data is needed to track down the problem, I am more than willing to invest quite a lot of time into this - but I am unable to hep without any guidance unfortunately.
I have just installed kernel-2.6.23.1-26.fc8.i686 to check with this one, and it still works under fedora 9 mounting/unmounting the luks encrypted usb hard disk.
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