Bug 498649 - Issues on the live cd
Summary: Issues on the live cd
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gvfs
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-01 16:34 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-06-28 12:19:02 UTC
Type: ---
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computer window (30.90 KB, image/png)
2009-05-01 16:34 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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mounting fails (35.89 KB, image/png)
2009-05-01 16:34 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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palimpsest can do it (114.15 KB, image/png)
2009-05-01 16:35 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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devkit-disks --dump (19.22 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-01 16:35 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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cat /proc/self/mountinfo (1.11 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-01 16:35 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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gvfs-mount -li (1.01 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-01 16:36 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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udevadm info --export-db (56.52 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-01 21:06 UTC, Matthias Clasen
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Description Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:34:06 UTC
Created attachment 342118 [details]
computer window

The nautilus computer window is a less than optimal experience when booting the live cd right now.

It shows two mysterious '2 GB' devices, it also shows my harddisk, and it shows the expected cdrom drive and filesystem entries.

Both of the '2 GB' and the harddisk entries have 'Mount' menuitem, but none of them works. 

What I would expect to see here in this case is my actual partitions on the harddisk, to be able to mount them. 

Palimpsest shows them just fine, and can mount them without problems.

I'll attach a few things...

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:34:33 UTC
Created attachment 342119 [details]
mounting fails

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:35:01 UTC
Created attachment 342120 [details]
palimpsest can do it

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:35:22 UTC
Created attachment 342121 [details]
devkit-disks --dump

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:35:42 UTC
Created attachment 342122 [details]
cat /proc/self/mountinfo

Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:36:04 UTC
Created attachment 342123 [details]
gvfs-mount -li

Comment 6 David Zeuthen 2009-05-01 16:52:10 UTC
What version of gvfs is this?

Comment 7 David Zeuthen 2009-05-01 16:53:24 UTC
Either way, it's a gvfs problem - we're not honoring :device-presentation-hide property...

Comment 8 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 16:58:26 UTC
gvfs-1.2.2-3.fc11

So, what problem will honoring :device-presentation-hide solve ?

I assume it might make the '2 GB' entries go away. But what about showing the entries that we can actually usefully mount, ie /home etc ?

Comment 9 David Zeuthen 2009-05-01 17:07:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> gvfs-1.2.2-3.fc11
> 
> So, what problem will honoring :device-presentation-hide solve ?
> 
> I assume it might make the '2 GB' entries go away. 

Yes.

> But what about showing the
> entries that we can actually usefully mount, ie /home etc ?  

Why do you think showing an implementation detail such as /home is useful?

Comment 10 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 17:16:57 UTC
> Why do you think showing an implementation detail such as /home is useful?  

Trying the live cd is easier if I have access to my actual data... /home is an implementation detail when it is automatically mounted at boot. It is not when it sits on my harddisk and I don't know how to get at it because the ui is not helping...

Comment 11 David Zeuthen 2009-05-01 17:30:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> > Why do you think showing an implementation detail such as /home is useful?  
> 
> Trying the live cd is easier if I have access to my actual data... /home is an
> implementation detail when it is automatically mounted at boot. It is not when
> it sits on my harddisk and I don't know how to get at it because the ui is not
> helping...  

Wait, what? I thought you meant /home as mounted into the file system, not some block device that happens to have the label "/home" just because the installer team or someone else decided that label is useful (calling it "Home Directories" is more useful and avoids conceptual clusterfucks like these). Maybe if you had said "/dev/sda2" it would have helped - I still can't read minds :-)

Anyway, /dev/sda2 has "presentation hide: 1" so it's probably the livecd boot scripts we should blame - any chance you can attach the udev rule from the live cd system that sets DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE? (grep in /{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d)

Comment 12 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 17:44:41 UTC
50-udev-default.rules has

DM_NAME=="live-osimg-min" EN{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"


That is the only occurrence of DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE in the livecd

Comment 13 David Zeuthen 2009-05-01 18:43:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> 50-udev-default.rules has
> 
> DM_NAME=="live-osimg-min" EN{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
> 
> 
> That is the only occurrence of DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE in the livecd  

Try

 $  udevadm info --export-db|grep HIDE

Comment 14 David Zeuthen 2009-05-01 18:45:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > 50-udev-default.rules has
> > 
> > DM_NAME=="live-osimg-min" EN{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

Did you type this wrong (missing ',' and EN should be ENV)? Or are the typos in the rules?

> > 
> > 
> > That is the only occurrence of DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE in the livecd  
> 
> Try
> 
>  $  udevadm info --export-db|grep HIDE  

Also, please attach the output of that command (e.g. 'udevadm info --export-db')

Comment 15 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 21:04:22 UTC
That grep command yields a ton of 

E: DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE=1

lines, not very useful. I'll attach the full dump

Comment 16 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 21:06:56 UTC
Created attachment 342153 [details]
udevadm info --export-db

Comment 17 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:57:51 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 19 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:19:02 UTC
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