Canonical System Image

On each reboot there is a notification that an SD card is available

Bug #1518124 reported by Michael Mess
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
Canonical System Image backlog
ciborium (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Arthur Mello

Bug Description

On each reboot there is a notification that an SD card is available.
This is annoying as I know that I am using an SD card in the phone and it should be possible to turn off such notifications.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) → ciborium (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ciborium (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → backlog
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Anupam (anupam207) wrote :

It's kinda annoying and I "me tooed" this bug, but it may turn out to be useful too. One time I didn't see the notification after rebooting my phone. Later I took photos, and noticed they were getting stored in device memory instead of the SD card. So for some reason the device didn't detect the SD card after the reboot and the absence of this notification was an indicator of that. Another reboot fixed it though.

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Julia Palandri (julia-palandri) wrote :

@anupam but in this case I'd rather have a notification saying something went wrong with my chosen storage than having multiple notifications of all the times that it worked ok

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Anupam (anupam207) wrote :

@Julia agreed

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Michael Mess (michael-michaelmess) wrote :

I think that a notification would be beneficial on each change. That means, if a new SD-Card has been detected or if that SD-Card (already known to the system as beeing in use) has been removed.

On each change the system should send a notification once and then record the change, so that on next boot no new notification is produced.
If on next boot the SD-Card from the record is absent, a notification about a removal should be produced and the record deleted.

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Anupam (anupam207) wrote :

There is a toggle switch for "External Drives" at System Settings > Notifications. Turning it off gets rid of these notifications. The state of this switch is persistent across reboots.

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

marking invalid given the notification control

Changed in ciborium (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
no longer affects: canonical-devices-system-image
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

michael informs me this regressed at some point so will keep it open
We used to only report the card once after initial insertion

Changed in ciborium (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Invalid → Confirmed
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in ciborium (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Arthur Mello (artmello)
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Anupam (anupam207) wrote :

That regression issue is tracked here: Bug #1611848

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Alexey Kulik (doctor-rover) wrote :

Bug #1611848 has been recently fixed on rc-proposed. So the workaround with turning the notifications off works again.

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