Hi Hadmut, I encountered the same problem: My root partition is encrypted but gnome-volume-manager asks me for my passphrase although it's already mounted as my root filesystem! Besides being annoying, if I do provide the password, the dialog freezes. The problem is that HAL detects the encrypted partition without realizing it's already mounted. The solution is for HAL to ignore the encrypted partition in this case.
I've attached a patch which fixes the bug by ignoring an encrypted volume unless it's hotpluggable or removable! Download it to your Desktop and execute the following command: cd /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor && sudo patch -p1 <~/Desktop/15 -storage-luks.fdi.diff This fix should be integrated into Ubuntu since it's quite an annoyance for users of encrypted partitions. It could be improved by checking if the device is really mounted. My patch only checks if it's removable or hotpluggable. It's simple and does work, though. (The added lines of code have been copied from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20 -storage-methods.fdi which handles a similar case!) Hope this helps, -- Stefan D. Schwarz ** Attachment added: "Set volume.ignore for encrypted partitions" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4157888/15-storage-luks.fdi.diff -- How to set volume.ignore for encrypted partitions? https://launchpad.net/bugs/57104 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
