pmount-hal: replace slashes in labels

[Tomohisa Kusano]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Running 6.06 with latest upgrade at 2006-05-25 2:35AM PDT.

nautilus 2.14.1-0ubuntu9

When I plug in USB HDD, with 3 partitions in there, 2 of them that have labels mount fine, but 1 drive that has no label fails to mount.

The HDD works fine on WinXP Home SP2.

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

Screenshot: What happens if I plug it in

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Could you follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices and provide useful details for that?

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

gnome-volume-manager -n 2>&1 | tee gvm.log

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

sudo udevmonitor -e | tee udev.log

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

lshal > lshal.txt

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

dmesg > dmesg.txt

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

ls -l /dev/sd* > devices.txt

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 2>&1 | tee hal.log

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

... and here are the rest; hope this helps:

$ id
uid=1000(mizna) gid=1000(mizna) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin),110(scanner),112(admin),1000(mizna),1001(hamachi)

$ id hal
id: hal: No such user

$ id haldaemon
uid=108(haldaemon) gid=108(haldaemon) groups=108(haldaemon),24(cdrom),25(floppy),46(plugdev)

$ uname -a
Linux tykho 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

It's due to the pretty stange label on /dev/sda1:

  volume.label = 'BODY>
  </HT' (string)

I'll fix pmount-hal to replace slashes in the device label with another character (underscore, perhaps). In the meantime, you can change the label of the first partition (under Windows, perhaps, since there is unfortunately no tool in Linux to change the label of a FAT partition).

[Tomohisa Kusano (tkusano)]

Thanks, giving the partition a label (and removing it again) in Windows worked.
Oddly, even Windows doesn't let me use slashes in disk labels, so this must be a truly exceptional case... but that's something else. (The only suspect so far is Acronis True Image; I'll ask the support there)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in bzr head, will upload a new version soon.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in pmount 0.9.12 in edgy.