Bug 218251

The nvidia driver is unrelated to this bug.
Also please note that gnome will not mount the device automatically. Gnome will
mount it on demand -- alternatively mount it through manual mounting.

What do you mean by "rights for the drive is set"? It gets remounted read-only?

It doesn't actually get remounted (according to /etc/mtab), but the effect is
the same as if the drive was unmounted and mounted read only.

Clarification: When a gnome-vfs2 app reads the content of the drive, it has the
side effect of disabling write support for the drive -- regardless of which
program is used to do this. I can mount it just fine with nautilus or any using
other mounting tool (such as mount), but as soon as I open the drive in a
gnome-vfs2 application, it is read-only untill I unmount it and mount it again.

There are no alterations to /etc/mtab and as far as I can tell there is no
unmounting going on in the process of marking the drive as read-only.

Do you get any warnings in e.g. /var/log/messages. Sometimes hitting kernel or
filesystem errors can turn the mount read-only.

I get a ton of Filesystem panics, but no notifications of remounting or unmounting.

Filesystem panics? Thats sounds really bad... Maybe it triggered read-only
without  logging that.

That's my theory. Anyways it appears that there is no usefull information in the
syslog as such. Please note that the bug does not occure for drives not in
/etc/fstab (which seems to be rather important now that I remember to tell you).
I'll have a look at the logs one more time to see if there are anything
significant other than the fs panics.

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