[Xubuntu, Studio?, Lubuntu?] Disable automount

The default xubuntu config for thunar-volman is at: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-default-settings/trunk/view/head:/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar-volman.xml

I also attach another xml config, to show more possible things (type="empty" means that the default system config is used, and that the user didn't change this property, so it doesn't need to be restored afterwards, only reset).

Thank you for submitting this bug report. I am confirming it, based on the comments made.

Dear xubuntu-devs, would you like to change your default livecd settings to stop automounting or would you like ubiquity to do subprocess.call to flip that key off:

xfconf-query -c thunar-volman -p /automount-drives/enabled -s false

I strongly recommend that we change ubiquity, regardless of what the desktop maintainers do. Even if all in-archive flavours change their configuration (which they may or may not want to do), we don't want to end up accumulating support debt from derivatives who don't realise that they need to do this to make the installer work. ubiquity already has plenty of different ways in which it attempts to disable automounting; one more won't hurt.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/719338

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.11.31

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ubiquity (2.11.31) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Buffer reads from debconf-copydb. Python 3 defaults to unbuffered reads
    from byte streams, which is much slower.
  * Port oem-config-remove-gtk to Python 3, now that
    python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets exists; the final piece!
  * Remove Python 2 support. We aren't going back now.
  * Remove the rest of the long-dead PS3 port.

  [ Dmitrijs Ledkovs ]
  * Allow going from the encryption key setup page, to the disk space
    allocation page. (LP: #1046323)
  * Correctly apply styles to the title & progress sections and not the
    centre piece. This means themes are no longer required to provide non
    standard @dark_[fb]g_color colors, instead 'menubar' Gtk CSS style is
    used. This also fixes long standing a11y issues in HighContrast themes
    & requirements for non-standard color definitions. (LP: #744283)
  * Make lables in the segmented bar use the same colours as normal labels.
  * Changing the "Add/Remove/Change Partiontion" buttons to mixed
    symbolic/text buttons should make the screen comply with Ubiquity
    Design spec ( http://goo.gl/Kokw5 ) and address confusion about the
    updated screen. (LP: #1045799)
  * Fix the disappearance of crypto password field (LP: #1045716)
  * Fix misallignment of crypto password fields (LP: #1045712)
  * Make setup security key page go back to ask page (LP: #1045698)
  * Remove powerpc/ps3 low-memory profile, as it doesn't do anything any
    more. gnome-session-remove command is no longer present, and the init
    processes it tried to stop no longer exist under those names. We do
    want a low memory profile, which ubiquity-only mode now.
  * ubiquity-wrapper: Add support for udisks2 inhibit, drop devkit-disks
    inhibit. (LP: #719338)
  * Prevent progress label to expand & shrink the window (LP: #1046241)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.122ubuntu9.

  [ Dylan McCall ]
  * Fixed slideshow_get_available_locale missing new locales in
    extra_slides_dir. (LP: #1046511)
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:47:54 +0100