20 Nov
2021
20 Nov
'21
4:09 p.m.
On 2021/11/21 12:55 AM, Ken Heard wrote:
Whenever I try to open such devices as USB flash
drives or solid state
drives, the 'Unlock storage device' window appears and asks me to enter
the password. I do so, whereupon the window expands at the bottom with
the following message: 'Feature only available with HAL.'
I find that message strange, as I thought that HAL had been superseded
by Dbus, but perhaps I am mistaken. In any event I would appreciate it
if somebody could inform me as to how to open such encrypted devices in
a box with Debian Bullseye and TDE.
Regards, Ken Heard
Hi Ken,
R14.0.x does not support opening encrypted devices from GUI directly, you get exactly the
error that you reported.
A workaround is to unlock the device from CLI first, then you can mount the unlocked
device.
R14.1.0 will support unlocking/mounting/unmounting/locking LUKS disks from GUI. In fact if
you use R14.1.0 [Development]
it already supports that, as long as you have udisks2 (recommended) or udevil or pmount
installed. You may need a polkit
agent installed to gain access to it (policykit-1-gnome will do for the moment -- a TDE
polkit agent is under
development and will be included in R14.1.0 when ready).
On a side note, I have been running TDE on Debian testing since 2012, I never had many
issues. The fact that you see so
many problems (see other emails from you) let me think you may be missing some packages or
have done something wrong
during the installation. Like the DCOP issue for example.
In general, TDE on a Debian box is as good as it gets :-)
Cheers
Michele