floppy0 comes out of nowhere
Bug #74657 reported by
Alexander Jones
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debian-installer-utils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Colin Watson | ||
Edgy |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I just installed Ubuntu on a fresh disk today.
I do not have a floppy drive, yet in my /etc/fstab file I have:
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
This causes a rogue entry named "Floppy 1" to show up in various places in GNOME.
I think floppy drives should be detected automatically, not just guessed like this.
Thanks!
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Your kernel actually does think that there's a floppy drive, as far as I can tell; I bet you'll find a /sys/block/fd0 directory or similar, perhaps representing a floppy drive controller without an actual floppy drive attached. We don't just guess (nowadays). The real bug here seems to be that the device node used is "/dev/"; I fixed this bug in list-devices a little while ago upstream, and should be able to merge it into Feisty shortly.