Comment 39 for bug 432215

Unfortunately I can only agree with André Barmasse : I have just upgraded my computer from 9.10 to 10.04. The good news is, the label "M-IDentity" is not padded with spaces anymore, so the mountpoint does not contain spaces. From that point of view, the bug is indeed fixed with 10.04.

The bad news is, as mentioned by M. Barmasse, the piece of software embedded in the Kobil dongle now crashes after a while, complaining about permissions. It actually requires write access to the Kobil device and since the upgrade to 10.04, something prevents it. The same error happens even when run as root.

For information :
- the device file (/dev/sr1 on my computer) has read/write permissions for everyone
- the mountpoint has no write access for anyone and there is no way to change this with chmod, even as root.

I guess it is an issue either with Hal or Udev, but I have no clue whatsoever. Creating an Udev rule for that device does not help either.

I really have concerns here because it gets worse as new versions of Ubuntu get released. It used to work almost flawlessly with 9.04 by creating a specific Udev rule for the Kobil dongle, once for all. Then 9.10 introduced the "label padded with spaces" issue. So I found the simple workaround to unmount the device manually and mount it again on a correctly formed moint point. At least it used to work. Now with 10.04 nothing works anymore. It is very disappointing.

I used to be an enthusiastic fan of Linux. Now I have to consider re.installing the crap Windoz, just because I cannot use my netbanking anymore. Shame !

Of course I am happy to provide more information to anyone who could help. I am going to create a new bug for this anyway.