Package: gnome-volume-manager
Version: 1.4.0-4
Severity: normal
When I log into GNOME on my laptop, whose hard drive is encrypted, I get
a password prompt because gnome-volume-manager has noticed an encrypted
partition and wants to mount it. This is inappropriate since the hard
drive partition in question is already unlocked, mounted, and in
active use.
This started a few weeks ago -- I believe it's due to the following
change in HAL 0.5.6-2:
* Because the addons run with root privs. now, harddisk properties are
available (Closes: #290653)
It seems that g-v-m now notices that there's an encrypted partition on
the hard drive, which in the past it was unaware of due to HAL not
having permission to examine the hard drive.
Killing gnome-volume-manager and restarting it from a terminal, I see
the following output:
manager.c/1788: mount_all: mounting /dev/sda2
manager.c/1127: mounting
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_1B33_0A00...
manager.c/568: executing command: /usr/bin/pmount-hal
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_1B33_0A00
Error: device /dev/sda2 is not removable
Error: could not execute pmount
manager.c/1788: mount_all: mounting /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3 is the encrypted volume; /dev/sda2 is a service partition that
came preinstalled on the laptop. These messages tell me that g-v-m uses
pmount-hal to actually (attempt to) mount things, but that it's
prompting for the password on its own initiative *before* running
pmount-hal for the encrypted partition. No further messages are
printed after I cancel the password dialog.
I don't know the details of how g-v-m discovers and handles encrypted
volumes, so I'm not quite sure whether this is actually a g-v-m bug or a
HAL bug. But I think it shouldn't attempt to unlock an encrypted volume
that's already unlocked and available.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnome-volume-manager depends on:
ii gconf2 2.12.1-9GNOME configuration database syste
ii hal 0.5.6-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-2The Bonobo UI library
ii libc62.3.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcairo21.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.61-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-9GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgksuui1.0-1 1.0.7-1 a graphical fronted to su library
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring00.4.8-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-02.12.0-2A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.1-1The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.12.2-6GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.12-1The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.6-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit21:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-01.10.4-1Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.2-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii pmount 0.9.8-1
