Bug#928893: Confirming gnome-disks problem

[Paul Gevers]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 release-notes

Starting from buster installer rc3, and installing minimal dependencies
to run, I can confirm the problem exists.
While trying to change the passphrase from gnome-disks, i.e. the old
"Error changing passphrase: Invalid argument (udisks-error-quark, 0)",
screenshot attached.
I have also tried to access again the disk from an external gparted
after the attempt, and I could not unlock the partition with neither
the old nor the new passphrase.

Let's document this in the release notes to warn people as this won't
get fixed in buster before the release.

Paul

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Paul Gevers
clone -1 -2

Bug #928893 [gnome-disk-utility] gnome-disk-utility: disk content permanently lost when changing LUKS password
Bug 928893 cloned as bug 931388

Post by Paul Gevers
reassign -2 release-notes

Bug #931388 [gnome-disk-utility] gnome-disk-utility: disk content permanently lost when changing LUKS password
Bug reassigned from package 'gnome-disk-utility' to 'release-notes'.
No longer marked as found in versions gnome-disk-utility/3.30.2-3.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #931388 to the same values previously set

[Paul Gevers]

Control: tags -1 patch pending

Hi,

Starting from buster installer rc3, and installing minimal dependencies
to run, I can confirm the problem exists.
While trying to change the passphrase from gnome-disks, i.e. the old
"Error changing passphrase: Invalid argument (udisks-error-quark, 0)",
screenshot attached.
I have also tried to access again the disk from an external gparted
after the attempt, and I could not unlock the partition with neither
the old nor the new passphrase.

I have prepared the attached text. I will push this shortly. Reviews
still welcome of course.

Paul

[Justin B Rye]

+ <section id="g-d-u-and-luks-password">
+ <!-- stretch to buster -->
+ <title>
+ gnome-disk-utility fails to change LUKS password causing permamently data

^ ^^

+ loss
+ </title>

Typo and grammar error.

+ <para>
+ Don't change the LUKS password of encrypted disks with the GNOME

Users shouldn't
Style: factual advice rather than commands

+ graphical interface for disk management. The <systemitem
+ role="package">gnome-disk-utility</systemitem> package in buster has a
+ very nasty <ulink url="&url-bts;928893">bug (#928893)</ulink> that will
+ delete the old password but fails to correctly set the new password when

Rephrased to avoid saying the bug fails.

+ it is used to change the LUKS password. As a result all data on the disk

Move "when used"... to allow shorter phrasing.

+ will become inaccessible.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
</chapter>

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