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Andres Diaz (cadiscol) wrote : Re: [Bug 539515] Re: Attempts to mount floppy despite no media present - disable automount

How to remove that line? where?

2010/5/20 Herrero Grégory <email address hidden>

> I had this problem too on my Lucid 10. and I confirm that you just need
> to disable floppy in Bios and remove the line with /dev/fd0 in
> /etc/fstab even if you have no floppy drive.
>
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> Attempts to mount floppy despite no media present - disable automount
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539515
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> Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> This causes long desktop session startup delays when the kernel detects a
> floppy drive which is not actually physically present, just enabled in the
> BIOS.
>
> WORKAROUND: Disable floppy in BIOS
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Mar 16 12:08:10 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> ExecutablePath: /bin/mount
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> OmitPids: 2368 2401 2402
> Package: mount 2.17-0ubuntu3
> ProcCmdline: mount /media/floppy0
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=de_DE.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
> SourcePackage: util-linux
> Title: does not terminate at computer shutdown
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
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