Bug 469723

Created attachment 322352 [details]
patch based on upstream code

http://bugs.kde.org/120619
Fix mounting of floppies, patch by Wang Baisheng, great thanks. Tested by me & other users. Approved by Kevin.

http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.cpp?r1=613652&r2=615516&diff_format=u
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.h?r1=601028&r2=615516&diff_format=u


libhal crashes left and right when you pass non existing UDIs,
so we're better more careful than crashing kded
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.cpp?r1=601033&r2=603818

don't handle floppy drives as with old HAL versions - newer
ones have a volume on its own, so better use that one (still
leaving older logic in place)
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.h?r1=624881&r2=657182
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.cpp?r1=615516&r2=657182


Init DBusError to avoid problems like:
3104: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 243.
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.cpp?r1=603818&r2=605183


- Fixed a small memleak: use libhal_free_string_array(volumes) instead
  of free(volumes)
- USB floppy drives have media-detection enabled. Thus we can react on
  insertion of a floppy disk
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.h?r1=657182&r2=740044&diff_format=u
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/halbackend.cpp?r1=724100&r2=740044

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we seem to be trying to mount volume. ood.

Created attachment 326118 [details]
lshal o/p

most likely, the culprit seems to be 
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage'

from what I was able to gather from
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120619.


Would it be possible to attach sosreport from your laptop ?





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New Contents:
version 0.5 of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) creates child device objects only when a file system is mounted. In cases where a storage device cannot be polled (for example, a floppy drive or IDE Zip drive), HAL adds mount methods to the device itself rather than the volume. Previously, this meant that when used in conjunction with HAL 0.5, KDE 3 would not allow users to mount filesystems on devices which the HAL could not poll. KDE now includes a modified HAL back end that allows users to mount and unmount volumes through the storage devices detected by the HAL.

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1277.html