Partition name weirdness

Please do
  lshal > hal.txt
  sudo blkid > blkid.txt

and attach both files.

hal tries to display the volume label, but that seems scrambled for some reason.

lshal > hal.txt

sudo blkid > blkid.txt

Any progress on this issue?

I think this is the same problem as bug #36846.

No, because the partition (/dev/hdb5) is detected correctly as vfat/FAT32. The label lshal shows, however, is bogus.

Are you sure it ever had a real, non-bogus label? Maybe the partition was created without a label?

Exactly, it never had a label in the first place, and I don't want it to have one. Mtools reports no label. In Dapper it had no label, in Edgy it still has no label, but a bogus one gets reported.

Also notice that in the attached lshal, this weird string ( 'Tp3WN_SQL' ) appears two more times!

  volume.policy.desired_mount_point = 'Tp3WN_SQL' (string)
  info.product = 'Tp3WN_SQL' (string)
  volume.label = 'Tp3WN_SQL' (string)

Reported upstream.

Upstream proposed a patch. I'm not 100% sure that it will fix this issue, but let's apply it, it's harmless enough.

 hal (0.5.8.1-4ubuntu12) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * Add debian/patches/66-NULL-fstype-crash.patch: Do not crash on NULL
     volume.fstypes, and assing some fallback values to them. Patch from Danny
     Kukawa in FD#10429. (LP: #87800)
   * debian/patches/24_ignored_volumes.patch: Ignore partitions which are
     mounted by default in /etc/fstab only when they are not currently mounted
     (this could happen on damaged partitions, failed fsck, etc., and
     inexperienced users should not randomly mount those.). Since this would
     make system partitions visible, limit the visible ones to /media/ again,
     as in previous Ubuntu releases. (LP: #73227)
   * Add debian/10-storage-policy.fdi: Resurrect 'Eject all USB and Firewire
     storage devices', just as in previous Ubuntu releases. (LP: #97366)
   * Add debian/patches/67-fix-probe-volume.patch: Attempt to fix scrambled
     labels. Taken from FD#10362, thanks to Danny Kukawa. (LP: #69914)

Help the patch? What print '/lib/udev/vol_id --export /dev/evms/hdb5' ?

I can now confirm that the problem is fixed in Feisty. Thanks people.

@Jimmy: but could you post what this command print: '/lib/udev/vol_id --export /dev/evms/hdb5'

vyruss@gremlin:~/Desktop$ /lib/udev/vol_id --export /dev/evms/hdb5
/dev/evms/hdb5: error open volume

Is there a /dev/evms/hdb5 or us there nothing. You have may to call the command as root if the device is there. Sorry!

root@gremlin:/home/vyruss# /lib/udev/vol_id --export /dev/evms/hdb5
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=vfat
ID_FS_VERSION=FAT32
ID_FS_UUID=7251-A453
ID_FS_LABEL=
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=