Activity log for bug #27897

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2006-04-05 17:10:27 Tarik Jabri bug added attachment 'weirdness.png' (Weird Characters on Mounted Volume Icon)
2006-04-05 17:11:16 Tarik Jabri bug added attachment 'more weirdness.png' (Screenshot of Weird Characters in System Log)
2006-04-05 17:34:09 funkensteinberg bug added attachment 'USB_Madness.png' (USB_Madness)
2006-04-05 18:21:12 Tarik Jabri None: status Unconfirmed Confirmed
2006-04-05 18:21:12 Tarik Jabri None: statusexplanation Bugzilla status=UNCONFIRMED, product=Ubuntu, component=UNKNOWN
2006-04-06 22:00:06 Dennis Kaarsemaker bug added subscriber Martin Pitt
2006-04-06 22:00:06 Dennis Kaarsemaker bug added subscriber Scott James Remnant
2006-04-07 07:50:02 Martin Pitt None: status Confirmed Needs Info
2006-04-08 03:58:21 Tarik Jabri bug added attachment 'hal.txt' (lshal output)
2006-05-04 11:44:05 Martin Pitt hal: status Needs Info Confirmed
2006-05-04 11:44:05 Martin Pitt hal: statusexplanation Thanks for the log. It really seems that the label is severely screwed up (it doesn't look like ISO-8859 either). From your log I was able to set the label of my USB stick's partition to the same value you have. hal should be fixed to ignore these invalid strings. In the meantime, if you can afford to reformat the drive you can set a good label with mkfs.vfat -n 'your label' /dev/hda2 or change the label under windows (sorry, there's currently no easy way to change the label of a VFAT partition under Linux).
2006-05-10 13:03:05 Martin Pitt title Weird name when using usb disk with dapper Scambled label for usb disk
2006-05-10 13:04:17 Martin Pitt hal: status Confirmed In Progress
2006-05-10 13:04:17 Martin Pitt hal: assignee pitti
2006-05-10 13:04:17 Martin Pitt hal: statusexplanation Thanks for the log. It really seems that the label is severely screwed up (it doesn't look like ISO-8859 either). From your log I was able to set the label of my USB stick's partition to the same value you have. hal should be fixed to ignore these invalid strings. In the meantime, if you can afford to reformat the drive you can set a good label with mkfs.vfat -n 'your label' /dev/hda2 or change the label under windows (sorry, there's currently no easy way to change the label of a VFAT partition under Linux).
2006-05-10 16:28:52 Martin Pitt hal: status In Progress Fix Released
2006-05-10 16:28:52 Martin Pitt hal: statusexplanation hal (0.5.7-1ubuntu14) dapper; urgency=low . * Add debian/patches/14_prove_volume_invalidlabel.patch: - Do not try to fix device labels with invalid UTF-8 characters if more than 20% of the characters are invalid. This avoids totally unintelligible labels while still preserving only mildly damaged ones. - Closes: LP#27897 This should be a reasonable heuristics. Can you please confirm that it works for you?
2006-05-10 16:29:52 Martin Pitt title Scambled label for usb disk Scrambled label for usb disk