fstab entries for CD-ROM drivers not migrated from hdX to sdX

[José M. López-Cepero]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Recently updated from Edgy to Feisty.

My /etc/fstab file had two kinds of entries. One of them was for partitions in my hard drive. They all were formerly referenced as /dev/hdaX, but they all were converted to the UUID form during the Edgy update. The transition from Edgy to Feisty has worked flawlessly for them, even keeping the swap partition working, which was troublesome in the Dapper->Edgy update.

However, there also were two entries pointing to my DVD drives (/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd). Since all drives are now seen as SCSI devices, these entries are worthless. During the upgrade, they should have been changed to /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 to reflect the new naming, or just have been commented out so that the automounting could handle them automatically.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I reassinged this to udev that is responsible for rewriting the fstab.

[Niels (niels-kooiman)]

I've exacty the same problem ..

no /dev/ harddisk devices after upgrading to fiesy

what can i do?

[manuel fernandez (mfg)]

I upgraded from edgy to feisty

I have no swap memory at all. (as reported by memory kinfocenter)
I wonder whether it has to do with this bug.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I don't see that there's anything udev can do here; there's no way that I know of to reliably convert a generic hd* to its proper sd* name. Since these are device targets, and not filesystem targets, UUID conversion doesn't apply.

TBH, they should not have been written this way in the first place! That's what the /dev/cdrom link is for.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Can't be fixed in udev, should be worked around in update-manager.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Assigning to mvo, copying status/importance/milestone from the udev task.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem is fixed in my local tree and the fix will be part of the next upload. The fstab will be rewriten during the upgrade so that the cdrom entry points to /dev/cdrom

Cheers,
 Michael