pmount-hal should use mount for fstab devices

[Danson Joseph]

Hi,

I've had this on a few machines. The mount applet given and error about the UDI and it not being a mountable volume or something similar, but a sheel mount command work fine, please advise - One machine was brand new and the other old, so I don't think age is a problem.

Many Thanks,
Danson

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu and gnome-applets do you use? What is the error message exactly?

[Danson Joseph (nosnad)]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply - I didn't have access to the machine.
The message is:

"ERROR: given UDI is not a mountable volume"

The disk is properly formatted with data on it.

Thanks,
Danson

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What version of Ubuntu do you use? What sort of device do you try to mount?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sorry, we need more information to know the reason for this.

  * Which Ubuntu version do you use? (Breezy/Breezy with latest breezy-updates/latest Dapper)
  * Please do 'lshal > hal.txt' and attach hal.txt here.
  * Please describe the device you want to mount (cdrom/USB stick/floppy)

Thanks!

[Danson Joseph (nosnad)]

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 i386 version with updates.
It's a floppy drive I am trying to mount.
Here is the lshal output,
Thanks,
Danson:

Dumping 51 device(s) from the Global Device List:
-------------------------------------------------
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_SLPB'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_SLPB' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  button.has_state = false (bool)
  info.capabilities = {'button'} (string list)
  info.category = 'button' (string)
  info.product = 'Sleep Button' (string)
  button.type = 'sleep' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  linux.acpi_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/button/sleep/SLPB' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_PWRF'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_PWRF' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  button.has_state = false (bool)
  info.capabilities = {'button'} (string list)
  info.category = 'button' (string)
  info.product = 'Power Button' (string)
  button.type = 'power' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  linux.acpi_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/button/power/PWRF' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_PWRB'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_PWRB' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  button.has_state = false (bool)
  info.capabilities = {'button'} (string list)
  info.category = 'button' (string)
  info.product = 'Power Button' (string)
  button.type = 'power' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  linux.acpi_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/button/power/PWRB' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_CPU0'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_CPU0' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 4 (0x4) (int)
  processor.can_throttle = true (bool)
  processor.number = 0 (0x0) (int)
  info.capabilities = {'processor'} (string list)
  info.category = 'processor' (string)
  info.product = 'Processor' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  linux.acpi_type = 1 (0x1) (int)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/processor/CPU0' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_AOPEN_CD_RW_CRW5224_1_05_20021212'
  info.addons = {'hald-addon-storage'} (string list)
  storage.policy.desired_mount_point = 'cdrecorder' (string)
  storage.policy.mount_filesystem = 'auto' (string)
  storage.policy.should_mount = true (bool)
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_AOPEN_CD_RW_CRW5224_1_05_20021212' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_AOPEN_CD_RW_CRW5224_1_05_20021212' (string)
  storage.cdrom.write_speed = 0 (0x0) (int)
  storage.cdrom.read_speed = 9173 (0x23d5) (int)
  storage.cdrom.support_media_changed = true (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdplusrw = false (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdplusr = false (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdram = false (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdrw = false (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdr = false (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvd = false (bool)
  storage.cdrom.cdr...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks for the hal log.

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage'
  [...]
  block.is_volume = false (bool)

This is supposed to be 'true' for a working floppy. Can anyone with a working floppy check this on his box? I don't have a floppy anywhere and can't test this.

Danson, can you please check whether it works with

  mount /dev/fd0

?

Thanks!

[Danson Joseph (nosnad)]

Hi,

mount /dev/fd0 does work. I have another PC that's working fine. Here are the relevant lshal sections:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage'
  storage.policy.desired_mount_point = 'floppy' (string)
  storage.policy.mount_filesystem = 'auto' (string)
  storage.policy.should_mount = true (bool)
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage' (string)
  info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block'} (string list)
  info.category = 'storage' (string)
  storage.requires_eject = false (bool)
  storage.hotpluggable = false (bool)
  storage.removable = true (bool)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  storage.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  storage.drive_type = 'floppy' (string)
  info.product = 'PC Floppy Drive' (string)
  info.vendor = '' (string)
  storage.vendor = 'PC Floppy Drive' (string)
  storage.model = '' (string)
  storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool)
  storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
  storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool)
  storage.bus = 'platform' (string)
  block.is_volume = false (bool)
  block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int)
  block.major = 2 (0x2) (int)
  block.device = '/dev/fd0' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/fd0' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/fd0' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_PNP0700'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_PNP0700' (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1) (int)
  info.product = 'PC standard floppy disk controller' (string)
  pnp.description = 'PC standard floppy disk controller' (string)
  pnp.id = 'PNP0700' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  info.bus = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:06' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:06' (string)

Hope that helps
Cheers,
Danson

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I think I'll just fix this in pmount-hal. It should just mount a device that is mentioned in fstab.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 pmount (0.9.10-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream bugfix release:
     - Fix processing of hal's mount options. (patch was already applied in
       previous version).
     - pmount-hal: Directly call mount for devices in /etc/fstab. This allows
       non-plugdev users to mount CD-ROMs and the like with GUIs like Gnome
       (which call pmount-hal). (https://launchpad.net/bugs/33232)
     - Document PMOUNT_DEBUG environment variable in pmount-hal manpage.
   * Remove debian/patches/02-pmount-hal-fix-mountoptions.patch, fixed
     upstream.