Ubuntu

Floppy is not mounted/opened

Bug #780405 reported by sergey on 2011-05-10

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

While trying to access floppy drive, the led shines for a short while, then nothing happens. Neither from Places-Floppy Drive, nor from Places-Computer-Floppy drive.

Manual mounting helped.

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /media/floppy

Resulted in the appearance of floppy icon in the computer. Access (copying, deleting) was possible only from command line and as a root. Umount was possible only for the root user.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic 2.6.38-8.42
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: sergey 1876 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC0: sergey 1876 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'ICH5'/'Intel ICH5 with ALC655 at irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC655 rev 0'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4760'
   Controls : 41
   Simple ctrls : 26
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'Camera'/'Camera at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB046d:08f0'
   Controls : 3
   Simple ctrls : 2
Date: Tue May 10 10:51:53 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=27f6ac77-6ec2-4e56-a1b3-25ca0e67695f
HotplugNewDevices:

HotplugNewMounts:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INC. MS-6788
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=4921c0f8-8ddc-4eba-8bb8-49d6c073a4fe ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.52
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Symptom: storage
UdevMonitorLog:
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
UdisksMonitorLog: Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/08/06
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V6.2 on 07.00T
dmi.board.name: MS-6788
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INC.
dmi.board.version: 20A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0123ABC
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Uknown Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.00
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV6.2on07.00T:bd02/08/06:svnMICRO-STARINC.:pnMS-6788:pvr20A:rvnMICRO-STARINC.:rnMS-6788:rvr20A:cvnUknownChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrVersion1.00:
dmi.product.name: MS-6788
dmi.product.version: 20A
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INC.

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sergey (sergeyshanygin) wrote on 2011-05-10:

AcpiTables.txt Edit (65.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AlsaDevices.txt Edit (764 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (275 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ArecordDevices.txt Edit (630 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (35.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec97.0.ac97.0.0.txt Edit (701 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec97.0.ac97.0.0.regs.txt Edit (767 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card1.Amixer.values.txt Edit (323 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (17.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (8.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (430 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (784 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo_.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (83.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (183.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (716.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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IKT (ikt) wrote on 2011-05-10:

Heya,

Can you confirm this is not a duplicate of:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/780405

thanks :)

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Incomplete

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sergey (sergeyshanygin) wrote on 2011-05-10: Re: [Bug 780405] Re: Floppy is not mounted/opened

Well, this is some sort of a circular reference, since it was me who reported this bug...
my launchpad nic is just "sergey"

--- On Tue, 5/10/11, IKT <email address hidden> wrote:

From: IKT <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 780405] Re: Floppy is not mounted/opened
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 2:32 PM

Heya,

Can you confirm this is not a duplicate of:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/780405

thanks :)

** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: New => Incomplete

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sergey (sergeyshanygin) wrote on 2011-05-10:

This seems to be exact replica of earlier bug:

Ubuntu can't mount floppy disk

    Ubuntu
    Bugs
    Bug #607052

Reported by Burt P. on 2010-07-19

The last comment on that thread mentions that in Alpha 3 of Natty it did not work...

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IKT (ikt) wrote on 2011-05-10:

Wops, sorry, yeah that was the bug I was referring to.

The problem is even with all those logs I can't see where the issue is, I can see the drive is recognised, but I can't see where it fails.

There's also this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/593140

What I'm trying to figure out is whether it's a linux kernel issue or gnome issue.

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IKT (ikt) wrote on 2011-05-10:

This bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592719

might be on the money

it may be an issue with udisks

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sergey (sergeyshanygin) wrote on 2011-05-10:

It seems that you are right. I've found a similar issue from 10.04 times...

http://cmc.site11.com/?p=641

together with a workaround, which is to degrade udisks...

Would be great to have it fixed. Granted, not that many use floppies nowadays, but when you need it... you need it indeed ;)

Best wishes from sunny Sweden! (only this time of the year, alas..)

Sergey

--- On Tue, 5/10/11, IKT <email address hidden> wrote:

From: IKT <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 780405] Re: Floppy is not mounted/opened
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 7:46 PM

This bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592719

might be on the money

it may be an issue with udisks

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