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[securedrop-export] device mapper sometimes busy when exporting #1732

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sssoleileraaa opened this issue Feb 24, 2020 · 5 comments
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[securedrop-export] device mapper sometimes busy when exporting #1732

sssoleileraaa opened this issue Feb 24, 2020 · 5 comments
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We've removed the "Export Successful" message from securedrop-export and are getting ready for the client to wait until either no status (meaning success) or a status containing an error message is returned. #666 surfaces a bug where sometimes the client receives an error message device-mapper: remove ioctl on luks-<unique id> failed: Device of resource busy, however the file transfer is successful.

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The bullets below indicate that the device is properly being mounted/unmounted locked/unlocked:

@sssoleileraaa sssoleileraaa added the bug Something isn't working label Feb 24, 2020
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Since this is not reproducible we should remove the release blocker tag or just close this issue.

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Since we still haven't seen this in QA, I'm going to close this for now, let's reopen if we see again

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rocodes commented Jan 26, 2022

Great(?) news, I have just repro'd this when I was testing scenarios for #1734.

Error msg 1 (can repro almost 100% of the time):
sd_export_already_unlocked_error

STR: insert USB, unlock via Nautilus in sd-devices (I have repro'd with both the "Forget password immediately" option and the "remember for x time" options), navigate to a folder inside the export device (eg a previous export archive) to keep the device busy

sd_devices_unlock_options

Error msg 2 (can repro 100% of the time) if you keep the device busy by e.g. cd ing into the /media/user/device-id-xxxxx directory in an sd-devices terminal
sd_devices_unmount_target_busy

  • The export occurs successfully, but an error message is shown (see attached screenshot)
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  • The reason the error shows up here is because the cleanup part of our 'copy submission` method also locks and unmounts the drive, so the user sees an error (with unmounting the drive) even though the export itself succeeded.

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rocodes commented Jan 26, 2022

I think a user would have to go out of their way to encounter this issue (i.e. by interacting directly with sd-devices to unlock the device instead of using the export workflow), and I think the fixes are pretty straightforward (such as clearer messaging in the export flow that indicates that the export itself was successful, but there's a problem unmounting the drive, and/or better error-handling as we unmount the drive if we detect that it's in use by another process on sd-devices).

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gonzalo-bulnes commented Oct 13, 2022

I see you've commented on this issue before @rocodes. It seems to me that this scenario would be handled as Status.ERROR_EXPORT_CLEANUP, wouldn't it? (#105)

@zenmonkeykstop zenmonkeykstop changed the title device mapper sometimes busy when exporting [securedrop-export] device mapper sometimes busy when exporting Dec 13, 2023
@zenmonkeykstop zenmonkeykstop transferred this issue from freedomofpress/securedrop-export Dec 13, 2023
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