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media automount fails to remove mountpoint on umount

Bug #119633 reported by Chris Pimlott
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Bug Description

I have a 6th gen iPod, formatted from a Macintosh with iTunes, with the volume name "Chris's iPod".

When I plug it in via USB, it is correctly automounted in "/media/Chris's iPod/" and works fine. When I eject the device, every again functions fine, except that the empty mountpoint directory "/media/Chris's iPod/" is left behind.

On each subsequent automount, a new mountpoint directory is created by appending a "_" - i.e. "/media/Chris's iPod_/", "/media/Chris's iPod__/", "/media/Chris's iPod___". This quickly becomes messy. Manually removing the empty directories fixes this, but clearly this shouldn't be necessary.

I suspect the unmounting script is having a problem with the single quote character and/or the space character in the volume name.

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Chris Pimlott (launchpad-chris) wrote :

Correction: On further inspection, the volume name and mountpoint name is "Chris’s iPod" - note the difference between "’" and "'".

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Chris Pimlott (launchpad-chris) wrote :

Steps to replicate:

1. Connect iPod to a Mac
2. Restore the iPod (in iTunes, select the iPod, click Restore and follow the prompts)
3. Accept the default name suggested for the iPod - it should be of the form "<username>’s iPod"
4. Eject the iPod
5. Connect iPod to Ubuntu machine
6. Eject the iPod

Result: "/media/<username>’s iPod/" remains after unmount

Expected result: "/media/<username>’s iPod/" should no longer exist once device is unmounted

description: updated
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Chris Pimlott (launchpad-chris) wrote :

Further testing suggests that it is the "’" character causing the problem. Naming the device "Foo Pod" works fine, but "Foo’Pod" does not.

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thom (tsk) wrote :

Same problem here with a external USB-HD. One difference: it always leaves useless mountpoints. no exception on regualr/special characters).

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