On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I don't know. My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true. >> It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two floppy >> drives. And I can no longer reproduce the problem. Having a floppy >> disk in the drive at boot time just once seems to have permanently >> cured the problem. Did a udev rule get created as a result of a >> "ready" floppy drive at boot time? I don't know. But I don't think >> there's much point in filing a bug report if I can no longer reproduce >> the problem and I don't know what cured it. > > I spoke too soon. The problem has recurred. After some more trial- > and-error experimentation, the problem now seems to be GNOME-related. > I can mount and umount the floppy disk UNTIL I logon to GNOME. > Then, things go haywire. I have been able to circumvent the problem > by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting: > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > Now only root can mount and umount floppies. Since GNOME does not > run with root privileges, it can't mess me up.
I've been systematically deleting the emails in this thread unread. I was about to do the same with this one when I remembered a Ubuntu-users thread/rant about floppies where the apparent solution was to keep the above lines in "/etc/fstab" and mount floppies with "udisks --mount /dev/fdX". Since Ubuntu's based on a mix of testing and unstable and uses the Debian udisks package without "ubuntufying" it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinp+q33qkxcakv8e2e52dz--zuwdvy++7sa5...@mail.gmail.com