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sidambhire

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 19

Cannot mount LUKS partitions in gnome-disks as admin user but root can

Dear Arch Linux community,
I was trying to mount a LUKS partition using `nemo` and `gnome-disks` but I could not. It asks for LUKS password and gets stuck there. After asking the LUKS password it typically asks root password but right not it is not proceeding up to that point. If I try to mount using `nemo` or `gnome-disks` as root user, it works.
I don't get any error even after using `nemo --debug` on terminal. Same for `gnome-disks`.
I do not know where to start debugging.

Here's output of `sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st`.

Please help!

Edit: I was able to mount a portable device with LUKS partition but not a partition on SSD inside the computer, which is a bit strange.

Edit 2: I just realized, whichever program had root authentication, where one enters root password, doesn't work. Maybe it's an issue with that. How to fix it is the question.

Last edited by sidambhire (2024-12-10 01:41:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,384

Re: Cannot mount LUKS partitions in gnome-disks as admin user but root can

The relevant elevation prompts will use polkit. Is your "admin user" part of the wheel group? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … identities -- side note, it looks like you run into networking conflicts with NetworkManager and dhcpcd, or did you explicitly configure NM to use dhcpcd? if you didn't you will want to disable dhcpcd if you continue to use NetworkManager

Last edited by V1del (2024-12-10 12:53:09)