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 _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
