Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186695
Icons for mounted disks/partitions missing
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:28 EST
Description of problem: Nautilus does no longer show icons for mounted disks on the desktop or in computer:///. This worked in FC4 but not in a fresh installation of FC5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.14.0-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible in gconf set to true. 2. Mount a harddisk partition. Actual results: Opening Computer:/// in Nautilus only shows Floppy Disk, CD/DVD, Filesystem and Network. On the desktop only the Computer, Home and Network icons are visible. Expected results: The mounted devices should be represented by icons in Computer:/// and on the desktop. Additional info:
I believe I'm seeing the same problem with some local partitions. In my fstab file I have a couple of remote nfs disks and a smbfs connection. These all show up and can be mounted from the Nautilus spatial view, along with the network, filesystem, cdrom and floppy drives. HOWEVER, as this is a multi-boot system, I also have fstab entries pointing to /dev/hda1 (an ntfs partition) and /dev/hda5 (a vfat partition). Neither show up in Nautilus. My FC5 installation has /boot in /dev/hda2 with swap and / as a logical volume set in /dev/hda3. Is it possible that the use of the lvm for the FC5 installation is erroneously supressing the search for other /dev/hda* partitions? NB. The drives can be mounted from the command line but they still don't show up in the Nautilus spatial view.
AFAIK, this was done intentionally as a security measure. Simply move or delete [b]/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives. fdi[/b], followed by a restart of the hal daemon, and fixed disks will once again appear.
Thanks, plexxxy. This worked. I think this ought to be in the Release Notes, but I'm setting this to NOTABUG.
Its already in the release notes. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageNotes
I respectfully disagree: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/ The only links I've personally seen pointing to the Docs/Beats/PackageNotes wiki page was posted in discussions on fedoraforums.org and in this bug discussion.
You have nothing to disagree about. The wiki is the canonical source for the latest content. The published release notes do not have the notes which is why I pointed to the latest content. The future errata (due on 15th of this month) will have them. Anyway if you need more content, you should file feedback against the release notes.