invalid entries in /etc/fstab should be filtered out

Bug #42810 reported by Andrea Garbarini
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GnomeVFS
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Baltix
New
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Hello, I was wondering if it were possible to have gnome-vfs filter out all those /etc/fstab entries which refer to devices being no longer valid. The /etc/fstab is created at install time and entries are populated according to the block devices found on the system during setup, a typical example in this respect is the cd-rom drive. Problem is, if the user later on moves the cd-drive to a different IDE channel, the corresponding /etc/fstab entry is invalidated. Actually this is not a serious issue, because gnome-vfs would get the new device node through HAL, problem is we will end with a "bogus" cd-rom drive showing up in nautilus. Actually, an easy workaround would be removing any reference to cd-rom drives from /etc/fstab altogether, since most desktop apps seem to rely on HAL nowadays: pmount is a valid example in this respect, it will still work even if no fstab entry is provided for the device which is being mounted. On the other hand, some don't: gnomebaker is one of these. Regards, andre

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote :

It's more of a gnome-volume-manager thing, isn't it?

Changed in gnome-vfs2:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Andrea Garbarini (garba) wrote :

indeed, sorry ;) regards, andre

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354249

Changed in gnome-vfs2:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-vfs:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
Changed in gnome-vfs:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

gnome-vfs is deprecated now and is not actively maintained. Upstream have already closed this bug report as WONTFIX

Changed in gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in gnome-vfs:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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