blkid fails to detect fat memory stick in camera phone

[randallw]

Binary package hint: libblkid1

In karmic, my camera phone fails to automount when I plug it in via usb. This works in hardy. I think I have tracked this down, via reading the mount manpage, to the fact that mount cannot autodetect the filesystem type. Plugging in the device, dmesg shows the partitions on the device correctly:
dmesg | tail
[ 6537.240147] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Sony Eri Memory Stick 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 6537.241877] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 6537.263077] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 126912 512-byte logical blocks: (64.9 MB/61.9 MiB)
[ 6537.268137] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 6537.268150] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[ 6537.268157] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6537.282079] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6537.282099] sdb: sdb1
[ 6537.312158] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6537.312180] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

However, this does not automount. If I try mounting manually, it fails:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/t
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

If I specify the filesystem to be vfat, no problems.

Reading the mount manpage, it tries to detect the filesystem type by using blkid and vol_id. In Hardy and Karmic, blkid does not detect the filesystem type:
sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb1
milli:~$ echo $?
2

Return code 2 from blkid, means "I don't know what filesystem that is". However, vol_id, which is no longer available in karmic, detects it and mount can automatically detect the and mount the device in Hardy:
hardy:> sudo vol_id /dev/sdb1
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=vfat
ID_FS_VERSION=FAT12
ID_FS_UUID=BABE-BABE
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=BABE-BABE
ID_FS_LABEL=
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=

So it seems that blkid has been broken/incomplete for quite some time, but mount was working by using vol_id. Since vol_id is now gone, automounting of my camera phone is now broken.

Hope this is enough info, let me know if you need more.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 26 12:30:49 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
HotplugNewMounts:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: gvfs 1.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

9.10 is end of life, are you still seeing this on a supported release?

[randallw (rwayth)]

This phone is long gone. I resent the change of status to "incomplete". I reported this over 3 years ago and it was ignored. Close it and change it to "ignored" if you like, but it is not incomplete.