Ubuntu
kde4libs package

Removable drives are mounted without regard to HAL policy

Bug #348726 reported by Byron Shelden on 2009-03-25

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kdelibs	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	kde4libs (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdebase

When a USB drive is mounted by kde, the policy settings in HAL are ignored.

I am trying to have usb drives mounted with the shortname=winnt mount option.
HAL supports this by merging volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=winnt into the properties for the drive.

Gnome correctly applies this policy, and the drive is mounted with the requested mount option. KDE ignores it.

Over the course of my troubleshooting, I discovered that KDE appears to ignore any policy properties set in this manner (for example, it will not honor the desired_mount_point property).

Running Ubuntu + KDE 8.10
HAL 0.5.1
KDE 4.2.0

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Byron Shelden (bshelden-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-03-25:

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) on 2009-07-08

Changed in kde4libs (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote on 2009-11-06:

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!