Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I am running Karmic UNR Alpha 5 on an Asus EEE PC 701. When I ran update
manager yesterday a distribution update occurred. After rebooting I
clicked on files and folders in the UNR menu. Volumes cdrom0 and floppy0
appeared. Who put these into the linux kernel? Dell, for example,
obsoleted floppy drives in 2004. Why has ubuntu 5 years later
resurrected them? Obviously they are not present on my system because
when I click on them nothing happens. It is unacceptable to rely solely
on a closed source BIOS for information about connected devices. Linux
needs to probe the devices to see that their registers etc are active
and that the devices can be viewed by the user before making icons for
them. My EEE PC can potentially have a lot of storage devices and
phantom devices make the situation unmanageable. My current system has
sda, the SILICONMOTION 4GB internal flash with Xandros on it, a 320GB
Western Digital passport sdb with karmic on it, sdc which is an SD card
reader and sdd when I plug in a USB flash key as well as the external
Samsung USB CD burner which I use to make Linux live CDs.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 27 08:54:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 ubuntu-unr
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cdrom0 and floppy0 not physically present
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437415
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