pysdm wants to mount the wrong partition, missed primary device

[Jacob]

Binary package hint: pysdm

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

$ apt-cache policy pysdm
pysdm:
  Installed: 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have 3 drives on my systems:
- /dev/sda, My primary hard drive, where my Windows and Ubuntu OS's are installed, with 4 partitions
- /dev/sdb, a USB drive easily removable, also with 4 partitions
- /dev/sdc, my flash-memory drive (Corsair)

The partitions on /dev/sda are /dev/sda1-4, where /dev/sda1 is my Windows partition.
I wished to have my Windows partition always mount at boot time.
Steps:
1. I invoke pysdm and it presents me with a window displaying the three devices I listed above.
2. I select /dev/sda and it expands down to display /dev/sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4
3. I select /dev/sda1, my Windows partition.
4. It pops up a small dialog box, telling me that /dev/sdb1 has not been configured. This is my backup partition on the the USB-attached hard drive. If I click on OK, it mounds the backup partition.

This is ridiculous! It should have been asking about configuring /dev/sda1, not sdb1.

I have been unable to get pysdm to list the windows partition (/dev/sda1). I finally succeeded (I think) using ntfs-config, though I won't be certain until I reboot. But the point is that pysdm is misbehaving.

[Jaime Soriano (kronoss)]

Try with 0.4.2 (https://launchpad.net/~kronoss/+archive/ppa/+files/pysdm_0.4.2-0ubuntu4_all.deb)

[Jacob (jakesalomon)]

Jaime,
It seemed worth the try but no better. It shows an aversion to /dev/sda*. When I select any partition under /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, it fixates on the /dev/sdb so the cure has *not* been effected.

That aside, if there is a new version of pysdm, why didn't it show up as an update in Synaptic?

-- Jacob

[Jaime Soriano (kronoss)]

Hi Jacob,

I developed pysdm some years ago and it needs some changes to be done and some parts to be rewritten but I hardly maintain it currently. The newer versions contain collaborations I have received (some of them related to volume detection).
I'd like to dedicate more time to this project, until I can I'm not going to propose it for inclusion into the main repositories as it could break things and I don't have much time for this.

About your problem, the contents of /etc/fstab and the result of "sudo blkid -c /dev/null" would be needed to know what can be happening.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

pydsm has been removed from Ubuntu as it's buggy and no longer maintained. See bug 1005279 for more details.