I've been using Ubuntu for about 1.5 year and I'm really liking the GNU/Linux experience. What I don't like about Ubuntu is as it develops more and more, it seems to get easier and makes me more lazy and dependent on GUI. I do enjoy playing games with friends and family so Ubuntu is my go-to gaming system. I also use Blender and Krita or Gimp to produce 3D and 2D game assets. I am learning python programming, trying to learn more BASH, and learning web development as well. So Debian is very desirable to me for 'work' related stuff. I don't really want to use my system like Windows, so this is why Debian has always been very appealing to me. I like to learn and I learn to do things the way I want to do them much faster with Debian.
So I have 2 hard drives and an external one for backup. Debian is on the 128GB SSD, Ubuntu 18.04 on the 1TB HDD, and a lot of files and backups on this 4TB WD MyBook external drive that it the subject matter. I formatted the external drive in ext4 in gnome-disk app in my Ubuntu system. I encrypted the drive and when I boot into Ubuntu I must enter the pass phrase which it remembers until I log out. This is desirable to me, but I think it is causing issues with my ability to unlock the device from my Debian system.
In Debian when I attempt to unlock the drive I am greeted with this message:
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Error unlocking /dev/sdc1: Error spawning command-line 'cryptsetup luksOpen "/dev/sdc1" "luks-jarblejarblejarble" ': Failed to execute child process "cryptsetup" (No such file or directory) (g-exec-error-quark, 8)
Thanks for the help.