Bug 153923

Summary: Dolphin doesn't show floppy drive contents when I select "PC Floppy Drive" in the places panel
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Josep Febrer <jfebrer>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal CC: geierb
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Josep Febrer 2007-12-12 18:46:32 UTC 
Version:           0.9.5.3.97.1 (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

In the Dolphin's Places panel if I press in the "PC Floppy Drive" icon it mount's the floppy but Dolphin doesn't change the directory location to the floppy one. The second time I press over the "PC Floppy Drive" icon in the Places panel it seems that try again to mount the floppy drive (although it is already mounted), also doesn't change the directory location and shows an error message in the status bar which says:

"An error occurred while accessing 'PC Floppy Drive', the system said: mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /media/floppy busy"
"mount: according to mtab,/dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy"

Besides that, if I manually go to /media/floppy with Dolphin it displays and manages correctly the contents inside the floppy disk.

Another thing, that when the floppy drive it is mounted, there is no way to unmount with Dolphin, if I right click over the "PC Floppy Drive" icon in the Dolphin's panel only appears a hide option. While another media like cd or a pendrive it shows an option to correclty unmount or eject the drive.
Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-04-24 08:16:13 UTC 
Is this issue still reproducible with KDE 4.0.3? I don't have a floppy drive and cannot reproduce it. I've reassigned the issue to kdelibs as - if the issue still occurs - it might be related to Solid.
Comment 2 Josep Febrer 2008-04-24 09:59:33 UTC 
I can exactly confirm with KDE 4.0.3 but with trunk KDE 4.0.70>=20080418 it is still present in the same form as described above.
Comment 3 Tobias Koenig 2008-04-25 15:59:21 UTC 
Hej,

that's a bug in HAL, which provides an empty 'volume.mount_point' property for floppy discs
instead of the real path. So we can't fix it but have to wait until HAL is fixed.

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 4 Josep Febrer 2008-04-25 16:38:04 UTC 
I want to add an additional comment.
If I run the gnome-settings-daemon command then Gtk apps show HAL devices in it's file open dialog like the KDE one's, but if I click on the floppy device on a Gtk file picker it mounts it but doesn't change it's path, like KDE, but the second time I click it, it goes to the floppy location which is what doesn't happen in KDE apps.
Note that this behaviour it happenend to me sometimes with other devices in KDE, so the first time that I click over it, it mounts the device but doesn't change it's path, but the second time doesn't try to mount again if it is already mounted and go to it's location.
I think that it should be sufficient to check if the device it is already mounted and change to the mounted point, but I don't know if that it is already a HAL job, so better to fix it there if is that case.

Thanks,
Josep
Comment 5 Bernhard Geier 2010-01-08 23:56:54 UTC 
This bug still exists in KDE 4.3.4 and HAL 0.5.14