Opening LUKS encrypted drive in nautilus results in "operation cancelled"
I'm on a Ubuntu 16.04 computer with a LUKS encrypted drive trying to mount an old Ubuntu 16.04 LUKS encrypted drive. When I open the drive in Nautilus, after entering the correct password I get the following pop-up error
Unable to access “127 GB Encrypted” Operation cancelled
Relevant? output of sudo fdisk -l
after doing sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_encrypted_volume
:
Disk /dev/sdb: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1D78C9DC-B51C-4729-8D7D-BB2B7C207511
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sdb2 1050624 1550335 499712 244M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb3 1550336 250068991 248518656 118.5G Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume: 118.5 GiB, 127239454720 bytes, 248514560 sectors
I've tried a number of answers from Mount encrypted volumes from command line? without success.
If I do the accepted answer
(this one)
udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb5
udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root
I get something like Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d3 is not a mountable filesystem.
If I do the highest voted answer
(this one)
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_encrypted_volume
sudo mkdir /media/my_device
sudo mount /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume /media/my_device
I get mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
Solution 1:
Scrolling through one of the related questions I found an answer that worked.
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_encrypted_volume
sudo vgimportclone /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume
This latter output a bunch of scary WARNING
until
Volume group "ubuntu-vg" successfully renamed to "ubuntu-vg1"
Notifying lvmetad about changes since it was disabled temporarily.
(This resolves any WARNING message about restarting lvmetad that appears above.)
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "ubuntu-vg" using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group "ubuntu-vg1" using metadata type lvm2
I then ran sudo vgchange -ay
(possibly unnecessarily) and then ran
sudo mount /dev/ubuntu-vg1/root /media/my_device/
And voila! The drive appeared in Nautilus