Binary package hint: nautilus
In Karmic Beta 1:
Nautilus shows useless unfunctional disk entry for LVM2 logical volume of root that is inside a crypted device (dm-crypt).
It has a lock symbol on the icon and is totaly useless because the root volume is already unlocked and does not need to show up.
When i click on it, a password prompt appears and when i type the password nothing happens. Of course nothing has to happen, because its already unlocked and does not have to show up in nautilus because the "Filesystem Icon already is a link to root volume of lvm2.
I think it's because of the new DeviceKit.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513009
My fstab to show disk setup:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/mapper/vg--xstation-lv--root during installation
UUID=05416132-988c-4a26-a1c9-8e10dc73a63b / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=d64d7a3f-d856-4f48-9f50-e50036c60c87 /boot ext4 relatime 0 2
/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt /media/storage ext4 relatime 0 2
# swap was on /dev/mapper/vg--xstation-lv--swap during installation
UUID=9d911269-d60d-4396-97bf-bef717e71b3c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
Created attachment 354517
screenshot of luks devices in nautilus
Description of problem:
Nautilus shows icons for LUKS devices in the 'computer' view. These devices are LVM volumes within a partition on the internal disk of a laptop. They are unlocked and the file systems within are mounted as /home and swap.
The LUKS block devices should not be shown in this view as there is nothing you can reasonably do with them.
They are also extremely confusing when you are just trying to navigate your root file system and your USB drives.
In the attached screenshot from my laptop the confusion is aggravated by the crazy-long name given to the first partition on the disk with contains the original old windows install. But it could be worse. The other day I installed Fedora 11 onto a new Eeepc for someone. The existing disk layout happened to have a second NTFS partition for Windows snapshots, plus a recovery partition. I installed into the snapshot partition. The end result was 2 'padlock' disks, 2 '160GB ATA 12345...' disks, and 'Filesystem'. I found it difficult to explain which bits were to never be touched.
Anyway, at a minimum, the LUKS devices should not be shown for / or /home which you are extremely unlikely to want to unmount.
This problem surfaced in F10. F9 was OK. It is now present in F11.