Bug 511258 - F11: DeviceKit will not let a second user mount a CD after a first user has used the drive
Summary: F11: DeviceKit will not let a second user mount a CD after a first user has u...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: DeviceKit-disks
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-14 13:30 UTC by dedded
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 13:37:20 UTC
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Description dedded 2009-07-14 13:30:01 UTC
Description of problem:

User Bob logs in.  Then switch user is called and user Sue logs in.  Then switch user is called again and Bob logs in again.  Bob now mounts a CD (or a USB thumb drive), everything works fine.  Bob ejects the CD.  Then switch user to Sue.  Sue dismisses the error dialog box (see bug 511256) and then tries to mount the CD.  The CD mounts, but Sue cannot access it (permission denied), and an error dialog box is displayed with this message:

Unable to mount <label-of-CD>
org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks.Error.Busy:
A job is pending on /dev/sr0

There is no icon for the CD on the desktop, but there is an entry for it in /etc/mtab.

User root must now unmount/eject the CD.  Sue has no access.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Version of component:

DeviceKit-disks-004-3.fc11.x86_64

Expected results:

Sue should be able to mount a CD.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 15:40:08 UTC
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Comment 2 dedded 2010-04-27 23:09:10 UTC
[I think I just conflated this with bug #511256, and the comment there really belongs here.  So I reproduce it.]

F11 is the most recent Fedora that I have installed, so I can't comment on
whether or not the bug has since been fixed.

I also don't understand why the priority of this bug was ever marked low. 
(Unless it is somehow hardware specific and most people aren't affected.)  This
bug made F11 untenable for me (had to switch distros).  This machine is the
primary computer for our family, all of whom have cameras with memory cards. 
Naturally, we hit "switch-user" all the time, and frequently have a card to
mount in one of those USB card readers.  This just didn't work with F11.

You won't encounter this bug on a system only used by one user, or if only one
user mounts USB sticks and cards.  But you hit it all the time on a regular
family computer.

Unless this is a rare, hardware-specific, issue, and unless it has already been
solved, I would recommend that it be fixed.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 13:37:20 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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