Ubuntu
devicekit-disks package

Mistakes external USB flash disk for system-internal disk

Bug #386699 reported by Max Bowsher
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This bug affects 16 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt
Karmic
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

On my ThinkPad Z61p, on plugging in a USB flash disk, I now get a prompt requesting authentication to authorize mounting a *system-internal* device.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 13 13:19:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: devicekit-disks 004-1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Please plug in the disk and copy&paste the output of "devkit-disks --dump". Thanks!

Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

Attached.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks. Seems I can reproduce this as well now.

The fun thing is that gvfs asks for a password, but if I open a Terminal and do "devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdb1" it works without a password. Can you confirm this?

affects: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) → gvfs (Ubuntu)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

Confirmed:

$ devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdb1
Mounted /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Disks/devices/sdb1 at /media/49DC-AFA8

works, no password prompt.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
tags: added: regression-potential
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Steve Beattie (sbeattie)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Martin Pitt (pitti)
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I couldn't reproduce this in a while with the current gvfs. Do you still have this problem in current karmic?

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

Yes, still a problem for me on completely updated current karmic.

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

Possibly related in the general sense of misdetecting media attributes - I'm offered in the desktop right click menu the choices to "Unmount" (good) or "Eject" (insane!) my usb flash disk.

Though the mental image of my usb stick being forcibly ejected from the side of my computer is amusing :-)

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Hew (hew) wrote :

I can also confirm the problem still exists, gvfs 1.3.1-0ubuntu3.

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Hew (hew) wrote :

Any additional info/testing required? I can still reproduce this every time.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Right, indeed I still sometimes get it as well. Usually, if you cancel the dialog and reattempt mounting a second time, it works.

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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komputes (komputes) wrote :

I'm not sure if this bug is related to what I am experiencing, but every time I boot I get prompted for a password for another partition on the machine. I did not ask for this partition to be mounted and it is not in /etc/fstab. I am running karmic alpha 32-bit.

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Hew (hew) wrote :

I'm not getting this problem anymore. Is this the case for others as well?

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

komputes, your problem is bug 396448. I cannot reproduce this issue here any more either.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I could reproduce this before as well, but not any more, just as the other reporters. I guess it was fixed in devicekit-disks 006. I close this now, please let me know if you can still reproduce this. If so, please do "ubuntu-bug", select the "storage device" symptom, and report a new bug, so that I can see the necessary debugging information.

Thanks!

affects: gvfs (Ubuntu Karmic) → devicekit-disks (Ubuntu Karmic)
Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Raqua (raquacontact) wrote :

I still have this problem with Karmic fully updated and devicekit-disks version 007.

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