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gvfs package

Does not detect hotplugged storage device (floppy spins but never mounts)

Bug #1004992 reported by Roland Hughes
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Bug Description

floppy spins but never mounts. Works fine in Vista on same laptop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gvfs 1.12.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic-pae 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 26 17:19:07 2012
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb
HotplugNewMounts:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Title: Does not detect hotplugged storage device
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, is your issue specific to floppies? Setting the bug "low" because there are very few users still relying on floppies

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
summary: - Does not detect hotplugged storage device
+ Does not detect hotplugged storage device (floppy spins but never
+ mounts)
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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote :

I'm not sure if apport collects those logs at the same time and in the same conditions, but UdevMonitorLog shows info about a filesystem while GvfsMonitorLog & UdisksMonitorLog say that there is no medium in the drive?

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Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek) wrote :

Sebastien,

Yes, the problem is specific to floppies. You know, another part of the Linux world maintained by Apple removed support for parallel ports because they believed in their infinite wisdom that parallel ports didn't exist any more, despite the fact MicrCenter had 30 different motherboards listed as "in-stock" on that very day which had PP.

Your view of the floppy is just as well informed.

Despite what you believe the floppy, and more notably the Super Floppy is still in wide use by professional writers who happen to make up a large section of the Linux community.

I haven't had a chance to test with external CDR yet, but I believe it is all USB removable media drives. Most likely broken when they fixed thumb drive support.

Jan,
 I assure you there was a floppy in the drive. I removed and replaced it many times. Computer did not mount. Rebooted to Windows worsta and was able to copy the files from that same floppy still in that same drive.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

> Your view of the floppy is just as well informed.

well, I've no special view on floppy out of the fact that most of the machines you can buy in Europe don't have a floppy drive today and that most of the people working on the Ubuntu desktop don't own a such device which makes hard to work on any floppy related bug report

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