Breezy: /dev/fd0 not created

[KarlGoetz]

udev (?) is failing to create /dev/fd0, and as a result of this, floppy drives
fail to work.
I have access to about a dozen systems with this problem, one with all available
updates (which i have been doing my investigation on), the others not up to date
yet.
The directory /dev/fd/ is created.
Im not sure where to go to debug this, so i will check back as often as possible
to get any info you might need.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please provide dmesg output from your kernel, it's more likely that your floppy
drive simply hasn't been detected and the right driver isn't loaded yet.

The /dev/fd/ directory is a directory of file descriptors for your process, it
isn't related to floppy devices.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

I will do in early febuary, as (unfortunately) i am overseas untill then.
Sorry for the delay.

[Sandgroper (ramsdenb)]

When booting up Breezy, the fd should be autodetected. In my case, every time, and on a number of p4 computers with ooddles of ram, the fd is not autodetected. This is a annoyance. To fight the domination of microsoft, and for those migrating from windows, it is important to get the distro right.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Floppy device creation is done somewhat differently for dapper, please try a Flight 4 Dapper Live CD where you should find that it's been fixed.

If not, Please provide the output of "ls /sys/bus/pnp/devices" and "cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/*/id" from the Dapper Live CD.

[Andy Bovett (abovett)]

I'm getting a similar problem on Dapper, along with bug 27926 (multiple entries in fstab). As this bug is marked "fixed" and applies to Breezy, I'll raise a new bug on Dapper.

[Andy Bovett (abovett)]

OK - raised as Bug 34359. Not sure if I should have done it though - I thought I was raising a bug specifically against Dapper but it seems all bugs on (say) udev get lumped together under launchpad/distributions/ubuntu/udev. Still haven't got the hang of Launchpad/Malone.

Andy B