Description of problem: Hal cannot clean up the /media directory after mounting a disk named with characters that need escaping. The directory under /media is created correctly (i.e. unescaped), but the copy of the directory name in /media/.hal-mtab is stored escaped. When it comes time to delete the directory, hal tries to remove the escaped name and not the unescaped name, which will fail. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.8.1-6.fc6 How reproducible: Arrange for hal to automount a disk with characters that it wants to escape. hal-storage-mount calls g_strescape() so that includes any character that g_strescape() will escape. Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkfs.vfat /some/device -n "badcharacter&" 2. Have HAL automount the disk 3. Try to unmount it and see HAL throw a "Cannot unmount volume" error with the reason "Cannot remove directory".
Created attachment 153575 [details] Patch for the escaping problem Patch.
Created attachment 153652 [details] A better fix for the escaped characters problem A better patch
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