Scott, thanks a lot for your investigations, this makes a lot of sense. To be honest I would be rather cautious with backporting the media detection patch. A lot of other layers (gvfs, blkid, udev, etc.) have changed since then, and it is not immediately obvious that this patch would not cause regressions with some media types or situations.
My gut feeling is that it is much safer to kill the daemon in the prerm, as you already pointed out. The postinst already does this for upgrades, so we can just copy the script and replace "configure" with "remove". Do you want to prepare an SRU/debdiff yourself, or want me to do it? Thanks, Martin ** Also affects: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: New => Triaged -- [MASTER] package policykit-1 0.96-1 failed to install/upgrade: start-stop-daemon: nothing in /proc - not mounted? when system is run from external card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs