Hardy Beta. Every reboot adds underscores

Bug #215875 reported by JDorfler
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Bug Description

Every time I reboot Hardy ever since the last great update, nautilus, or another program keeps adding underscores to my external hdd partition names. To give an example, if the name of my external HDD was Documents, after a reboot it would be named Documents_. Then after another it will be Documents__. So on and so forth. I wouldn't mind so much, but any program that I have that looks for data in my external HDD has to be reset to look for the new name. Programs like Exaile keep coming up saying I have no music until I redirect it to look for the newly named HDD partition. I dual boot my pc with WinXP and have both OSes use Thunderbird. I have both looking at the same exact folders to keep my email from duplicating and being fragmented. This sucks, b/c every time I reboot I have to tell Thunderbird exactly where all my emails and newsgroups are all over again. As you can see I am quite frustrated with this.

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bekhongdeokinh (hieusdc) wrote :

Yes, I am suffering exactly the same problem. So my solution is manually delete unused directory in /media, then it will be ok for the next boot. But the thing is you have to delete those unused directory every times. It is annoying but I have no solution at hand now.

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luinfana (tony-mondelli) wrote :

I have the same problem, on 2.6.24-16-generic, Hardy beta.

ls in /media, for example, returns the following (among other things):

CAMCARD
CAMCARD_
CAMCARD__
CAMCARD___
CAMCARD____
CAMCARD_____
CAMCARD______
CAMCARD_______
CAMCARD________
CAMCARD_________
CAMCARD__________
CAMCARD___________
CAMCARD____________
CAMCARD_____________
CAMCARD______________
CAMCARD_______________
CAMCARD________________
CAMCARD_________________
CAMCARD__________________
CAMCARD___________________
CAMCARD____________________
CAMCARD_____________________
CAMCARD______________________
CAMCARD_______________________
CAMCARD________________________
CAMCARD_________________________
CAMCARD__________________________
CAMCARD___________________________
CAMCARD____________________________
CAMCARD_____________________________
CAMCARD______________________________
CAMCARD_______________________________
CAMCARD________________________________
CAMCARD_________________________________
CAMCARD__________________________________
CAMCARD___________________________________
CAMCARD____________________________________
CAMCARD_____________________________________
CAMCARD______________________________________
CAMCARD_______________________________________
CAMCARD________________________________________
CAMCARD_________________________________________
CAMCARD__________________________________________
CAMCARD___________________________________________
CAMCARD____________________________________________
CAMCARD_____________________________________________
CAMCARD______________________________________________
CAMCARD_______________________________________________
CAMCARD________________________________________________
CAMCARD_________________________________________________

(CAMCARD is the name of my built-in camera card reader).

I'll have to try bekhongdeokinh's partial solution...it sounds like a recent update may have eliminated the re-appearing of these abnormal names on reboot.

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Ingo Gerth (igerth) wrote :

I have the same problem, and it is *extremely* annoying.
Since I store my photos and music on an external HDD, this makes it virtually impossible to use a program like Rhythmbox or FSpot.

I have attached a screenshot to this comment.

Good luck fixing this bug :-)!

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Ingo Gerth (igerth) wrote :

A few people have reported this bug, too, so it can be rated as confirmed.

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Ingo Gerth (igerth) wrote :

I do not experience this bug anymore. If you are not experiencing it anymore, too, please close it.

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JDorfler (jdorfler) wrote :

Past upgrades have stopped this.

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