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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Usability: cryptsetup is missing from default install

Status in “unity-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On a fresh install of Ubuntu I connect a USB drive or SD card, that I
  formatted and encrypted with gnome-disks (on another system). I get a
  dialog prompting for the password, I enter the correct password. I get
  an error dialog:

  Error unlocking /dev/sdg1: Error spawning command-line `cryptsetup
  luksOpen "/dev/sdg1" "luks-a6645339-a9d6-4dc5-985a-023ff620522e" ':
  Failed to execute child process "cryptsetup" (No such file or
  directory) (g-exec-error-quark, 8)

  There are several problems:
  1) The software pretends to support encrypted disks by showing a password prompt but it doesn't.
  2) It's 2014. Ubuntu should really support encrypted external disks by default. Period.
  3) The error dialog is not helpful at all and a perfect example why Ubuntu is not ready for the mainstream. What were e.g. my parents supposed to do with this?

  Workaround:
  sudo apt-get install cryptsetup

  Real fix:
  1) The software should check if cryptsetup is there, *before* showing the password prompt and show an apropriate, helpful message if it is not. Possibly with an easy one-click solution. "The volume you connected/inserted is encrypted. Additional software needs to be installed to support this. [Cancel] [[Install encryption support]]"
  2) Ubuntu should install cryptsetup by default.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140414-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon May 26 12:54:21 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon/unity-fallback-mount-helper
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-24 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unity-settings-daemon
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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