Floppy icon on desktop will not open

[Dane Mutters]

To reproduce:

1) copy the floppy icon from Computer to the Gnome desktop.
2) insert a floppy in the drive
3) double click on the desktop icon

Expected result:

Floppy mounts, but does not open. Repeated clicking produces nothing.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you still have the problem?

[Dane Mutters (dmutters)]

I am using Dapper Drake. I still have this problem, though it has changed somewhat since I made this report. Now when I insert a floppy into the USB drive, it will automount and open it, which is very nice. However, when I go to open it again (having first closed the window that came up showing the files) using the icon I created on the desktop (not the one that it auto-created), it gives me this error:

Unable to mount the selected floppy drive.
error: /dev/sda is already mounted to /media/floppy
error: could not execute pmount

If I click on the auto-created icon it works fine, but if I unmount ("eject") the volume and then click on the icon that I made, it will mount it again, creating another icon, and then not open a window with the files on the drive. Repeated clicking on the homemade icon produces the error above. Clicking on the auto-created icon opens up a window showing the files.

Since an icon is now created on the desktop when a floppy is inserted, this is not such a problem for me; it's really just an annoyance that I can't have a floppy icon always on the desktop for mounting/unmounting the volume at will instead of having to remove/insert the disk.

Thanks for taking notice of this bug report! I hope it's an easy one to fix. :-)

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

From the initial bug description, this somehow sounds like two completely separate issues. Is this still a problem in Edgy or Feisty? Can you attach the info of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices ?

[Dane Mutters (dmutters)]

I haven't yet tried Edgy or Feisty on my laptop, where this is a problem. I intend to install Feisty when it's released, and will let you know the results then. Thanks.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Please follow up, once you've done that.

[Dane Mutters (dmutters)]

OK. I've installed Ubuntu 7.04 onto my laptop, and followed the above reproduction instructions. The bug is still there. It's not as much of an issue, since the floppy icon is now created on the desktop when media is inserted, but still, I find it annoying that the custom-made icon doesn't work. It simply says, "unable to mount volume" when double-clicked, with or without the media already mounted.

Thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Can someone please try to reproduce this bug with a Gutsy Gibbon installation? i don't have a floopy device to try out, thanks you!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue using hardy?

[Dane Mutters (dmutters)]

It seems in Hardy that it's not possible to drag the icon from Computer to the Destkop. It gives me this error (in "details" of the error window): Can't open mountable file.

Incidentally, when I went to mount a floppy, the icon in Computer changed to a generic removable drive icon, and the name changed to "DP" (which is the label of the disk), then the icon changed back to the floppy icon, as one might expect. Oddly enough, though, the icon and the name stayed as the generic icon, and the label stayed "DP" when the volume was unmounted through the GUI (right-click). This may or may not be a related bug...

Anyway, let me know if you need any more input.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug since the recent comment indicate the issue is deprecated on hardy