Regression: USB removable storage devices listed in fstab no longer show in "Computer"

[Oded Arbel]

On my system I have an external hard drive connected through USB, that has an entry in /etc/fstab setup so that it always mounts in a specified location. It is setup with "users,noauto" so that users can mount it - as it has a FAT32 file system, the mounting user has full access to the drive for the duration of the mount to the exclusion of other users.

In Gutsy (7.10) this setup was very useful - users had an icon for the drive under "Places"->"Computer" or on their desktop and could mount and unmount the drive easily. Since the upgrade to Hardy the device no longer appears in either "Computer" or desktops. After commenting out the fstab entry and re-logging in, the drive now appears but when accessing it it mounts under /media/PRODUCT-NAME instead of where I need it to go.

[jtniehof (jtniehof)]

I have the same symptoms in 9.10, nautilus version 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
(Changing package to nautilus because the symptom manifests there.)

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu better by reporting this bug.
Nautilus gets its information for the devices from Gvfs, which uses DeviceKit. This is most likely a bug in one of the two. However, in order to determine this we first need some more information.
Could you please provide the output of the following commands, attached in separate attachments -- the output is too long for comments.
gvfs-mount -li
devkit-disks --dump
cat /etc/fstab
cat /proc/self/mountinfo

Thanks in advance

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I forgot to mention that when executing those commands you need to have the affected device(s) connected to your system.

[jtniehof (jtniehof)]

Logs are attached. Looks like the disk shows up in devkit but not gvfs, so changing the package. Removing the entry from fstab makes it show up in Places; no need to unplug/replug the drive. If I re-add the drive to fstab, without unplugging/replugging the drive, it no longer has an entry in places.

Also found upstream bugs, linking.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for your input! However, the bugs you've assigned are actually bugs that were already fixed. It could be a bug in the patch that solved GNOME Bug #536292, I'll ask in that bug report for more information.