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FS#5513 - Gnome/Nautilus does not handle floppy drives properly
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Opened by Real Name (Michel F) - Tuesday, 03 October 2006, 15:37 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 13 May 2007, 18:24 GMT
Opened by Real Name (Michel F) - Tuesday, 03 October 2006, 15:37 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 13 May 2007, 18:24 GMT
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DetailsWhenever I double-click on the floppy icon in the "Computer" folder in Nautilus, it takes a long time (40 secs or so) to mount the floppy and when it is mounted, Nautilus does not display its content but rather displays the content of the root (/) folder.
However, the floppy is effectively mounted with /media/usbstick as mount point and mtab shows a cooresponding entry. This folder can be browsed and its content is correct. My fstab file does not have any entry for floppy drives (/dev/fd0 in my case). If I put in it an entry for /dev/fd0 with /media/floppy as mount point, then Nautilus mounts the floppy immediately (1 sec or so) but still does not display its content but rather displays the content of the root (/) folder. This behaviour is not what we should expect, i.e.: 1. Nautilus mounts immediately the floppy (wether there is an entry in fstab or not) 2. The mount point is /media/floppy 3. Nautilus shows the content of the mount point (This is, for example, the behaviour of Kde/Konqueror.) I have recently set-up a new Arch-Linux install. On top of the base install (and xorg), I installed the gnome and gnome-extra package groups from the testing repository, i.e. gnome 2.16. |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 18:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Assuming fixed, no response for over a month.
Can't test it myself because I deprecated floppydrives over a year ago in all my systems.
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 18:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Assuming fixed, no response for over a month.
Can't test it myself because I deprecated floppydrives over a year ago in all my systems.
2/ lshal : see full log attached
<device>
<match key="storage.no_partitions_hint" bool="true">
<match key="storage.drive_type" string="floppy">
<merge key="storage.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">vfat</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
Now, whith such a hal rule, floppy mounts without delay on a /media/usbstick mount point, which is not desirable. Adding the following line to the hal rule makes it mount on /media/floppy:
<merge key="storage.policy.desired_mount_point" type="string">floppy</merge>
Having done this, two of the three issues are avoided. I say avoided but not solved because in my opinion, the user should not patch this on its own with a hal rule. This is standard behaviour for a floppy and it should be handled by nautilus.
Also, the last issue remains, i.e. that once the floppy is mounted, nautilus displays the content of the root folder and not of /media/floppy. I filed a bud in bugzilla for this.
Don't know if there is anything specific to Arch Linux to be done.