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Many duplicates in /etc/fstab

Bug #28783 reported by Trouilliez vincent on 2006-01-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #27926: fstab contains 8 floppy drives but PC does not have any. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debian-installer (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

On Dapper Flight 3, the following /etc/fstab was generated during the install.
I have only one SCSI CD drive (burner), but no less than 8 mouting points were created for it, which yields to as many drive icons in the "Computer" location in Nautilus !
The floppy disk drive too got 8 mouting points, but thank god, there is only one icon for it in Nautilus.

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom3 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom4 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom5 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom6 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom7 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom8 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy2 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy3 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy4 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy5 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy6 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy7 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

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Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet) wrote on 2006-01-17:

Oops, the layout is all over the place ! :-/
Looks like Malone decided somehow to discard the "return" key codes.. :-(

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Christian Elkjaer (c.elkjaer) wrote on 2006-01-29:

I can confirm this bug!

The same applies to my Thinkpad T41 with Dapper Flight 3, however, in my case the cd/dvd-rom drive has only one mount point whereas the floppy drive has 8 mount points. Consequently, I see 8 floppy drives in Nautilus.

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Christian Elkjaer (c.elkjaer) wrote on 2006-01-29: Screenshot: Nautilus showing 8 floppy drives

Screenshot: Nautilus showing 8 floppy drives Edit (28.8 KiB, image/png)

As a supplement to the content of fstab here is a screenshot of Nautilus showing no less than 8 floppy drives for a laptop with NO floppy drive(s). :-)

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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote on 2006-02-02:

This is basically just a +1 from me.

I had one floppy drive at installation time, since then I haven't docked the laptop so haven't had any, /etc/fstab lists 8 floppies all at /dev/fd0

ls /dev/fd is symlinked to /proc/self/fd
ls /proc/self/fd gives four symlinks:
lrwx------ 1 dean dean 64 2006-02-02 19:34 0 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 dean dean 64 2006-02-02 19:34 1 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 dean dean 64 2006-02-02 19:34 2 -> /dev/pts/0
lr-x------ 1 dean dean 64 2006-02-02 19:34 3 -> /proc/8575/fd

An ls on /proc/8575/fd gives no such file.

I also get a cdrom despite there not being on currently attached.

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Chris Kühl (blixtra) wrote on 2006-02-12:

I can also confirm this bug on a Thinkpad T43.

I've got 9 floppy drives in "Computer" although I don't even have a floppy drive nor a docking station.

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Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist) wrote on 2006-02-16:

The same problem occurred for me with my IBM Thinkpad T41 and the Dapper Drake Flight 3 install CD.

Changed in debian-installer:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2006-02-25:

On a clean dapper flight 4 install, I got the 8 floppies in /etc/fstab, but just one cdrom.

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kamome (kamome) wrote on 2006-02-26:

Same here - one CDROM (correct) and 8 floppies (none of which I have installed to this machine).

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kamome (kamome) wrote on 2006-02-26:

Sorry, kamome again - this is on flight 4

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote on 2006-03-01:

#10

I also have this, on a dapper box dist-upgraded today.

Some lspci output:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8371 [KX133] (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8371 [KX133 AGP]
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)