Freeze when mounting firewire 400 FAT 32drive in gutsy

[Ludovico Fischer]

I've got an external LaCie hard drive formatted as FAT 32. If I try to mount it via the GUI, the a window opens, but stays blank, and I have to force quit File Manager. After closing that blank window, the disk icon is visible on the Desktop. If I double-click it, everything works normally.

Gutsy Tribe 5

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Ludovico Fischer (ludovicofischer)]

My bad. It seems it does not really freeze; if you wait about forty seconds, it actually manages to display the content the first time without need to force quit and restart. Here is the log anyway. I'm not sure it's good because it's the first time I do this.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hm, then the drive might just be slow with powering up and initializing itself. The log is not useful if it actually worked :/ However, if you attach /var/log/kern.log after it successfully mounted, that might give us a clue about why it takes so long. Thank you!

[Ludovico Fischer (ludovicofischer)]

Here is the kern.log file.

[Wousser (wousser)]

Might be a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/147931

[Ludovico Fischer (ludovicofischer)]

In my case, this seems at least partly dependent on the kernel driver. On other distributions and with file managers other than Nautilus, there is always a long pause before I can see the content of this Firewire hard drive. Neverthless, the wait is greatly reduce using a custom 2.6.24 kernel compiled with the 'juju' stack. Still does not not work well in Fedora 8, though (which uses juju, I think, but 2.6.23).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Right, 2.6.24 does not need the 'usefree' trick any more. In any case, this was worked around in gutsy final (see duplicate master).