Thanks! But.I disabled the floppy in my BIOS and the system no longer tries to mount the non-existent floppy. However,I can see a definite advantage for those who's BIOS do not provide such an option.
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From: martyfelker <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: [Bug 1054414] Re: Tries to automount floppy drives
The following code fro within the Ubuntu 12.10 VM (or Linux Mint 14 for
that matter) is:
This immediately (don't need a reboot)removes the bogus floppy icon from
the launcher and also /dev/fd0. You may also sudo rm -fr /media/floppy*
if you wish.
1) The Home folder displays a floppy drive and none exists. Clicking on the image results in a message box"
"Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with
non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"
2) The Unity Launcher displays a floppy drive. Clicking on image
causes nothing to happen. Image canot be closed or unlocked from
launcher.
Thanks! But.I disabled the floppy in my BIOS and the system no longer tries to mount the non-existent floppy. However,I can see a definite advantage for those who's BIOS do not provide such an option.
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From: martyfelker <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: [Bug 1054414] Re: Tries to automount floppy drives
The following code fro within the Ubuntu 12.10 VM (or Linux Mint 14 for
that matter) is:
echo "blacklist floppy" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe. d/blacklist- floppy. conf
sudo rmmod floppy
sudo update-initramfs -u
This immediately (don't need a reboot)removes the bogus floppy icon from
the launcher and also /dev/fd0. You may also sudo rm -fr /media/floppy*
if you wish.
See discussion
http:// communities. vmware. com/thread/ 426323? tstart= 0
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Title:
Tries to automount floppy drives
Status in “udisks2” package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description: /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ gvfs/+bug/ 1054414/ +attachment/ 3330112/ +files/ Screenshot% 20from% 202012- 09-21%2018% 3A52%3A01. png)
Quantal system attempts to display non-existent Floppy Drive. See
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1) The Home folder displays a floppy drive and none exists. Clicking on the image results in a message box"
"Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with
non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"
2) The Unity Launcher displays a floppy drive. Clicking on image
causes nothing to happen. Image canot be closed or unlocked from
launcher.
BTW - Running on VMWare with Open-VM-Tools
ProblemType: Bug gnature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4 gvfs/gvfs- gphoto2- volume- monitor edia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120615)
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gvfs-backends 1.13.9-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSi
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 21 18:43:01 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/
InstallationM
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gvfs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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