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and subject line Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#497463: KDE mediamanager
behaviour.
has caused the Debian Bug report #497463,
regarding hal: kernel ntfs driver does not support locale= option, KDE fails to
mount ntfs volumes
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Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-3
Severity: important
Raúl Sánchez Siles noticed, that mounting ntfs volumes from within KDE fails.
An analysis of the problem within Debian revealed the following issues:
There are currently 3 different fs drivers for ntfs
a) in-kernel ntfs
b) ntfs-3g (userspace)
c) ntfs-fuse (userspace, from ntfsprogs)
Only b) and c) support the locale= option.
There was a commit to hal [1] which allows to set the locale option, without
taking into account, that in-kernel ntfs does not support this option.
gnome-mount uses ntfs-3g as fstype by default, thus circumvents this problem.
KDE uses ntfs as fstype, which by default in Debian, uses the in-kernel ntfs
driver.
Possible solutions:
1.) Make KDE use ntfs-3g as default ntfs driver. Same behaviour as gnome-mount,
requires gnome-mount to be installed. If ntfs is used as fstype, don't pass
locale option to hal.
2.) Modify 20-storage-methods.fdi to only allow the locale= option for ntfs-3g
and ntfs-fuse
3.) Make ntfs-3g install a symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing to
/usr/bin/ntfs-3g.
This why ntfs-3g will be used by default for ntfs volumes, even if fstype is
not
explicitely specified. If ntfs-3g is not installed, this will still fail.
Michael
[1]http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commit;h=a372bf79e16a5c6c00d0e262745dc935de364ca2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.2.3-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii hal-info 20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.3-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal-storage1 0.5.11-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal1 0.5.11-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libsmbios1 0.13.13-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-12 userspace USB programming library
ii libvolume-id0 0.125-6 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii pciutils 1:3.0.0-4 Linux PCI Utilities
ii pm-utils 1.1.2.4-1 utilities and scripts for power ma
ii udev 0.125-6 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii usbutils 0.73-10 Linux USB utilities
Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii eject 2.1.5+deb1-1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn libsmbios-bin <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages hal suggests:
ii gnome-device-manager 0.2-2 GNOME device manager based on HAL
-- no debconf information
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Should be fixed, so closing
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