120619 2006-01-22 22:46:04 +0000 Mounting floppies doesn't work 2007-01-12 20:39:41 +0000 1 1 10 Unmaintained kio media unspecified Compiled Sources Linux RESOLVED FIXED NOR normal --- 1 ismail ervin david emanuele komp76 sergio whistler 123 oldest_to_newest 408188 0 ismail 2006-01-22 22:46:05 +0000 Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.1) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: gcc 3.4.5 OS: Linux How to reproduce: 1. open media:/ 2. double click on floppy icon 3. it does mount the floppy ( according to mount ) but never finishes loading 4. press stop and open media:/ again 5. it gives an error about floppy being already mounted [*] 6. Use /media/floppy_0 to access the floppy Now first bug is what I mentioned here the overall process but on the other hand [*] doesn't make sense why give an error if its already mounted? If its already mounted just don't mount and open the directory. 408189 1 ismail 2006-01-22 22:47:10 +0000 CC'in Emanuele, he and 2 different users able to reproduce the same bug. 409517 2 ismail 2006-01-28 15:13:43 +0000 Before mounting hal says: 4: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage' storage.policy.desired_mount_point = 'floppy' (string) storage.policy.mount_filesystem = 'auto' (string) storage.policy.should_mount = true (bool) block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage' (string) info.capabilities = { 'storage', 'block' } (string list) info.category = 'storage' (string) storage.requires_eject = false (bool) storage.hotpluggable = false (bool) storage.removable = true (bool) storage.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0' (string) storage.drive_type = 'floppy' (string) info.product = 'PC Floppy Drive' (string) info.vendor = '' (string) storage.vendor = 'PC Floppy Drive' (string) storage.model = '' (string) storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool) storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool) storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool) storage.bus = 'platform' (string) block.is_volume = false (bool) block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int) block.major = 2 (0x2) (int) block.device = '/dev/floppy/0' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0' (string) linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/fd0' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/fd0' (string) After mounting it says : 4: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage' storage.policy.desired_mount_point = 'floppy' (string) storage.policy.mount_filesystem = 'auto' (string) storage.policy.should_mount = true (bool) block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage' (string) info.capabilities = { 'storage', 'block' } (string list) info.category = 'storage' (string) storage.requires_eject = false (bool) storage.hotpluggable = false (bool) storage.removable = true (bool) storage.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0' (string) storage.drive_type = 'floppy' (string) info.product = 'PC Floppy Drive' (string) info.vendor = '' (string) storage.vendor = 'PC Floppy Drive' (string) storage.model = '' (string) storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool) storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool) storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool) storage.bus = 'platform' (string) block.is_volume = false (bool) block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int) block.major = 2 (0x2) (int) block.device = '/dev/floppy/0' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0' (string) linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/fd0' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/fd0' (string) 409518 3 ismail 2006-01-28 15:14:18 +0000 HAL version is 0.5.5.1 410309 4 ismail 2006-01-31 16:19:25 +0000 Ervin, do you need any extra information about this bug? 410310 5 ismail 2006-01-31 16:19:53 +0000 Oh I meant Kevin ;) 410314 6 ervin 2006-01-31 16:28:44 +0000 Well, I'm in need of more time and a floppy disk. =) Seriously, could you please give me /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage children too? the floppy drive should have at least one having the capability volume, otherwise I hardly see how our HAL backend can detect the mount (the mount state is given by volumes not storage). 411823 7 ervin 2006-02-05 19:18:32 +0000 *** Bug 120452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 411827 8 sergio 2006-02-05 19:44:19 +0000 I can confirm this bug too, with KDE 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 from Kubuntu packages I have HAL 0.5.3 My floppy has udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage and it has no children 413949 9 rafael.espindola 2006-02-14 01:28:13 +0000 same problem with debian (kde 3.5.1 and hal 0.5.6). I will recompile the kde packages with hal 0.4.8 and report 414083 10 rafael.espindola 2006-02-14 17:32:18 +0000 compiling with 0.4.8 is proving harder then expected! I have just compiled kdelibs. To do so I had to remove the patches debian/patches/98_buildprep.diff debian/patches/27_kdnssd_avahi.diff debian/patches/01_kdelibs_branch_r506549.diff and remove the dependencies on avahi I have more urgent things to do. As soon as possible I will compile kdebase and test 423130 11 tommi.tervo 2006-03-19 11:42:05 +0000 *** Bug 123885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 424374 12 j.straight-kde 2006-03-24 00:15:29 +0000 What I find odd about this bug is that it's specific to floppies. Both internal standard floppies and my external usb floppy on my laptop which is addressed as /dev/sdb1, while my external mp3 player is recognized as external storage on /dev/sdb1 and it works fine. 424853 13 jfmc2 2006-03-25 23:03:59 +0000 Hi all.. I'm a gentoo user experiencing the exact same problems as expressed here. I'm not alone in this, btw. Just check out: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3207734.html#3207734 I'm going to say this and I expect that the issue is just marked as UPSTREAM and forgotten, maybe it's a problem in KDE itself. The thing is that I've found this bug in freedesktop.org: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6395 which describes I think exactly the problema that is happening. The proposal is for people from this thread to go to freedesktop.org and post comments with any extra information that might be useful and also so that the peeps at freedesktop.org see the importance and can take a look at it quickly Thanks a lot! 425500 14 ismail 2006-03-28 11:28:09 +0000 Kevin, HAL bug report about this on freedesktop is closed with CLOSED->NOTABUG with this final comment: ------- Additional Comments From david@fubar.dk  2006-03-28 14:31 ------- Hi, Yes, this used to work in HAL 0.4.x but it was deliberately changed in the 0.5.x so we don't put child device object only when something was mounted. The reasoning was that it was inconsistent and caused more trouble... So.. you need to teach the desktop stack about this - as a data point it works in gnome-vfs 2.14 / gnome-mount 0.4. Btw, it applies to more than floppy drives... also other drives we cannot poll, e.g. IDE Zip drives. More precisly this happens when  storage.media_check_enabled = FALSE Hope this helps. I'm closing this as NOTABUG as it was a deliberate change from 0.4.x. Thanks. 428801 15 david 2006-04-07 17:27:48 +0000 Since updating my Fedora Core 4 system with the latest updates, I now get this behaviour on my CD drive as well as my floppy drive. 430432 16 multescugeorge 2006-04-13 07:30:47 +0000 One way to get around this is NOT to use media:/ folder. Instead, create a link to the floppy from right clicking on the desktop->Create new->Link to Device->Floppy device then right click on the new link, and go to Properties->Device; and select /dev/fd0 i added the folowing line to /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat users,pamconsole,exec,rw,noauto,managed 0 0 the folder /media/floppy must exist, of course. The floppy manipulation works as expected from the desktop link. Hope this helps someone. 430884 17 juergenw_ 2006-04-14 13:09:02 +0000 I am facing the following floppy mount problems with Fedora Core 5 & KDE 3.5.1 & 3.5.2 (pls. note that FC5 no longer uses fstab.sync but relies on the desktop manager for mounting devices properly on the desktop): I have set up KDE (ControlCenter) to display mounted & unmounted 3.5"-floppy devices on the desktop. I am as user member of the groups 'disk' and 'floppy'. Mount point is set to '/media/floppy', option automount is checked, unmounted floppy icon appears on desktop. Upon insert of a floppy disk an _blank_ konquerer window opens at 'media:/fd0', while the desktop icon is _not_ being updated from umounted to mounted icon ! Subsequently, neither right-clicking on the desktop icon gives me the option to unmount the floppy again, nor can I do this in the konquerer-filemanager in the storage media panel. I can unmount the floppy savely at the console (and did so), but KDE obviously isn't being notified and still displays the disk content under /media/floppy. As a consequence, new inserts of a floppy disk fill up the /media directory with new entries as floppy-1, floppy-2 and so on. As a workaround I have stopped KDE to display floppy device icons on the desktop and inserted a static entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 and manually created a .desktop file for that. This behaviour is limited only to floppies. CD-ROM, DVD, USB sticks are mounted properly by KDE. 430893 18 david 2006-04-14 13:34:06 +0000 Comment 17 : This looks like a very different bug to the one here - you ought to open a new request to get proper attention to your bug. 433882 19 marius_mps 2006-04-25 18:34:39 +0000 I'm also having this bug with Frugalware 0.4 . It has KDE 3.5.1 and HAL 0.5.7 . Is this being worked on ? Because I really hate this bug and if it's not I'll try and look into the code myself although I don't really have any experiece with this kind of stuff and my C/C++ is pretty basic . 433997 20 multescugeorge 2006-04-26 09:11:24 +0000 Update: I tried to reproduce the bug according to the original bug post, At step 3 it finishes loading, and indeed it mounts the floppy, according to mtab, but it desn't show the contens, subsequent tries to mount result in multiple /media/floppy_x folders, and multiple /dev/fd0 mounts: /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy-9 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,uid=0,utf8,shortname=lower) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy-10 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,uid=0,utf8,shortname=lower) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy-11 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,uid=0,utf8,shortname=lower) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy-12 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,uid=0,utf8,shortname=lower) Accesing the floppy contens from the media:/ folder is impossible. The floppy contens is being mounted on all the /media/floppy_x folder shown by mtab. but media:/ seems unaware of the place where the floppy is mounted. (I wonder if media:/ doesn't want to display /media/floppy_label but floppy is mounted in another place . . .) Floppy manipulation works as expected with a .desktop file and a fstab entry. The .desktop file is being updated on the floppy status, while the icon from media:/floppy always remains unaware of floppy mount status. KDE: 3.5.2-0.2 Fedora5 rpm's HAL package version: 0.5.7 441360 21 bigbusca 2006-05-23 23:07:22 +0000 Bug forever? 443089 22 fabio.erculiani 2006-05-30 17:30:08 +0000 I can confirm that stupid bug. And I lovely hate system:/ buggy kio-slave !!!!!!!!!! 445977 23 ervin 2006-06-12 12:31:56 +0000 SVN commit 550578 by ervin: Merge coolo's branch, it contains quite some fixes and interesting features. It'll be available in KDE 3.5.4, couldn't be committed before, but thanks to the partial feature unfreeze... FEATURE: BUG: 50185 BUG: 105482 BUG: 108823 BUG: 114854 BUG: 120619 BUG: 121833 BUG: 127788 CCMAIL: coolo@kde.org M +3 -2 Makefile.am M +7 -0 configure.in.in M +2 -2 kcmodule/managermodule.cpp M +4 -3 kcmodule/notifiermodule.cpp M +1 -1 kfile-plugin/kfile_media.desktop M +7 -2 kfile-plugin/kfilemediaplugin.cpp M +4 -0 libmediacommon/medium.cpp M +20 -1 libmediacommon/medium.h M +14 -1 mediaimpl.cpp M +643 -41 mediamanager/halbackend.cpp [POSSIBLY UNSAFE: popen] M +20 -0 mediamanager/halbackend.h M +72 -9 mediamanager/mediamanager.cpp M +8 -0 mediamanager/mediamanager.h M +6 -3 medianotifier/medianotifier.cpp M +1 -1 mounthelper/Makefile.am M +32 -19 mounthelper/kio_media_mounthelper.cpp AM propsdlgplugin (directory) branches/work/coolos_media/propsdlgplugin#549689 446002 24 fabio.erculiani 2006-06-12 14:27:54 +0000 Is it possible to have a patch that applies to KDE 3.5.3 that contains these fixes without fighting with svn? thanks a lot! 446747 25 fabio.erculiani 2006-06-15 09:11:23 +0000 I've applied that changes and now when I try to create a file on the floppy I get: Malformed URL . (and I can only press OK). Do I need to add anything else to the sources to get that working? 446888 26 fabio.erculiani 2006-06-15 19:10:01 +0000 Well... the floppy get mounted but on media:/ it is shown as unmounted even if cat /etc/mtab reports that it is. I want to reopen this bug since it's not completely fixed. 446900 27 ismail 2006-06-15 19:27:45 +0000 With the latest 3.5 SVN I can't even mount a DVD, could be a HAL-Dbus problem I guess. Any tips? 455763 28 ervin 2006-07-25 15:10:56 +0000 *** Bug 131346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 455765 29 ervin 2006-07-25 15:12:56 +0000 For #27: Check that the hal-system-storage-* scripts got installed correctly (generally in /usr/share/hal/scripts) and that everything is ok in the hal dbus security policy (generally in /etc/dbus/system.d/hal.conf). 458582 30 dg 2006-08-07 09:00:11 +0000 Upgraded to KDE 3.5.4, Kubuntu Dapper packages. The problem is STILL THERE. Anyone else on another distro could confirm this? If so, I will reopen the bug. 458583 31 fabio.erculiani 2006-08-07 09:04:50 +0000 I said that ! 458584 32 ervin 2006-08-07 09:09:33 +0000 Please check as on #27. If the policy settings are wrong (IIRC was the case on Gentoo for instance) or the hal-system-storage-* scripts missing (like on Kubuntu) that's a packaging issue in the depends. You'd probably bug your distro first. 478828 33 poprocks 2006-10-21 21:29:20 +0000 From the HAL mailing list: "There is no feasble way to probe for media on standard PC floppy drive, so HAL adds mount methods to storage device itself, not volumes. Your volume manager should present you with a representation of unmounted floppy and let you manually mount and unmount it. This is the same way other OS work too." KDE's media ioslave does not seem to be doing this with the HAL backend atm. IMHO it should just look for "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_*" and create icons for them that can be manually unmounted and unmounted, like in fstab mode. 487088 34 18579 bswang 2006-11-16 06:14:06 +0000 Created attachment 18579 3.5.5 floppy patch 492664 35 ismail 2006-12-09 19:27:07 +0000 The bug still exists in KDE 3.5 branch and patch from comment #34 fixes the issue. I am reopening the bug. 492691 36 fabio.erculiani 2006-12-09 22:33:14 +0000 yes, #34 works for me too 492962 37 modax.reg 2006-12-11 15:12:07 +0000 Yes, I've verified, comment#34 resolves the problem with HAL managed floppies (which are not in fstab) and causes no regressions. Thank you Wang. 492968 38 fabio.erculiani 2006-12-11 15:28:23 +0000 any hope to have this in 3.5.6 ? 492974 39 marius_mps 2006-12-11 15:44:48 +0000 I'm not sure about it but maybe after the 16th of December: http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.5-release-plan.html 493049 40 ismail 2006-12-11 20:03:03 +0000 Patch needs Kevin's approval. 495380 41 ismail 2006-12-21 21:26:58 +0000 SVN commit 615516 by cartman: Fix mounting of floppies, patch by Wang Baisheng, great thanks. Tested by me & other users. Approved by Kevin. BUG:FIXED:120619 495410 42 fabio.erculiani 2006-12-22 09:04:25 +0000 I love you all! :-) yummy! 500684 43 werbeschrott 2007-01-11 22:14:26 +0000 Since I´m new to linux, I don´t know how to use the Patch. Your help would be appreciated. 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