FS#21190 - [udisks] 1.0.1-5 Nautilus can't mount floppy disks

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 11 October 2010, 12:24 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
I can't mount floppy disks with Nautilus after update to udisks 1.0.1-5, which contains the no-floppy.patch. With udisks 1.0.1-4 it works fine.
Nautilus first tries to discover that any disks are inserted to drive, and after that tries to mount the disks. With the no-floppy.patch it seems that Nautilus always assumes the drive is empty, and therefore not try to mount.
The command line mount ('udisks --mount /dev/fd0') also works with no-floppy.patch.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
udisks 1.0.1-5
gnome-disk-utility 2.32.0-2
gvfs 1.6.4-1
nautilus 2.32.0-1

* related launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/udisks/+bug/441835

Steps to reproduce:
1. Insert a disk to your floppy drive.
2/A Click on floppy drive item in places menu -> nothing happens
2/B Double-click on floppy drive in Nautilus "Computer" location -> "no device media found" error message shown
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  upstream doesn't want it
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 11 October 2010, 13:39 GMT
the patch was committed to their git and is due in 1.0.2

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=ca93d4e2d9e7f483b2fde1725da086e2cca44164

i suggest to report to them that is breaking mounting floppies.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 01 November 2010, 01:13 GMT
Here is the upstream bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30283

And I attached a patch from there, which is works for me.
   floppy.patch (0.5 KiB)
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 02 December 2010, 12:50 GMT
It still happens with udisks 1.0.2. Please apply this patch to fix floppy support.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 02 December 2010, 12:53 GMT
i would prefer to see what developers have to say before pushing a patch
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 15:42 GMT
have you reported upstream?
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 16:39 GMT
It's already reported here, but nobody responded for that: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30283

What could I do?
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 16:46 GMT
ask the developer who committed the patch.
Comment by Roman Beslik (beroal) - Saturday, 02 July 2011, 15:05 GMT
@György Balló (City-busz): Thanks for the patch. It also fixes this problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554700/comments/10 .
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 13:43 GMT
Now I reported on devkit-devel mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2011-September/001152.html
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:11 GMT
According to mailing list, udisks developers don't want to re-enable floppy support, because it may causes various problems on systems that have a floppy controller, but no drive attached.

Therefore I created a new udisks-floppy package, that contains this patch, and brings back floppy support for GUI apps like Nautilus and Thunar:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52774
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:16 GMT
i follow that ml and saw the discussion

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