Bug#669973: gvfs: mounting floppies fails: `No volume for device file /dev/fd0`

[Paul Menzel]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.6.4-3
Severity: important

Dear Debian folks,


I was surprised that with having a floppy disk inserted in the floppy
drive and clicking on the floppy icon in Nautilus, the floppy is not
mounted but I do get an error message »No volume found« (»Kein Medium
eingelegt«).

Mounting the floppy manually using `mount` worked without problems.

Searching for this issue on the net, I found a thread in the Ubuntu
forums [1] which references a bug report in Launchpad [2].

Basically

    $ udisks --mount /dev/fd0

works just fine and an additional floppy symbol appears in Nautilus over
which I can access the content on the floppy disk. But

    $ gvfs-mount -d /dev/fd0
    No volume for device file /dev/fd0

Is there a way to fix this for Debian Squeeze/stable? I do not know if
more recent packages in Wheezy/testing or Sid/unstable fix these
problems.

Both the forum thread [1] and the Launchpad report [2] have a lot of
comments and the bug was even tagged as solved in between, so I am not
sure what the real problem is now. Maybe Martin could write a short
summary? That would be awesome.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569234&page=3
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/441835

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-2          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1              2.0.1-7           XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.1-6          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgdu0                2.30.1-2          GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.30.1-1          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libudev0               164-3             libudev shared library
ii  x11-utils              7.5+4             X11 utilities

Versions of packages gvfs recommends:
ii  dbus                   1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.96-3            GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends                 1.6.4-3    userspace virtual filesystem - bac

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