"access to this internal disk is restricted" prompt on hal upgrades

Bug #138537 reported by Martin Pitt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-volume-manager
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt
hal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager

When restarting hal (e. g. during an upgrade), there apparently is some automounting magic triggered, which causes the "access to this internal disk is restricted" gksudo prompt. This should not happen for internal disks.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Let's fix this with a hal policy (disabling automounting of fixed drives). It is not done on session startup anyway (since that disables the gnome-mount UI which would ask for authentication), and automouting internal drives is sometimes undesirable or even dangerous.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Meh, g-v-m does not actually honour storage.automount_enabled_hint any more, so I need to fix that as well.

Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

gnome-volume-manager (2.17.0-2ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Add debian/patches/02_honour_automount_enabled_hint.patch: Actually
    suppress automounting if storage.automount_enabled_hint is False.
    (LP: #138537)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:22:24 +0200

Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

hal (0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/preferences.fdi: Disable automounting for fixed disks. On session
    startup it is not done anyway (since that disables the gnome-mount UI
    which would ask for authentication) and it leads to confusion when
    restarting hal while a session is running. (LP: #138537)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:49:23 +0200

Changed in hal:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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