Bug#716900: gvfs 1.16.3-1 prevents usb-connected mass storage devices from being detected

[Tony Green]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.12.3-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


I'm running Testing. I installed the latest batch of updates seen and
afterwards was unable to mount filesystems from my USB-connected Android
device.

Restoring my sytem and installing individual updates, I've established that the
problem lies in gvfs; all of the packages its update depends on have installed
without problem, so the problem seems to lie in one of gvfs, gvfs-backends,
gvfs-bin, gvfs-common, gvfs-daemons or gvfs-libs. (Due to interdependecies I've
been unable to properly isolate which of these packages causes the problem).

Installed (working) version: 1.12.3-4
Failing version: 1.16.3-1

Note: I am reporting this bug from a system restored from backups to eliminate
the problem, so reportbug will report the wrong versions of gvfs packages.

What I expect to see:
tailf /var/log/syslog in a terminal
Turn on USB storage on the Android device

The following lines appear in the syslog:
--------------------------------------------------
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.242721] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] 4243456
512-byte logical blocks: (2.17 GB/2.02 GiB)
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.243457] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] No Caching
mode page present
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.243464] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive
cache: write through
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.245764] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] No Caching
mode page present
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.245770] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive
cache: write through
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.247388]  sdd:
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.259125] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 32372736
512-byte logical blocks: (16.5 GB/15.4 GiB)
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.260047] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching
mode page present
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.260053] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive
cache: write through
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.262312] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching
mode page present
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.262319] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive
cache: write through
Jul 14 13:17:09 antwerp kernel: [  801.264810]  sdc: sdc1
Jul 14 13:17:10 antwerp kernel: [  802.435701] FAT-fs (sdc1): utf8 is not a
recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Jul 14 13:17:13 antwerp kernel: [  805.576354] FAT-fs (sdd): utf8 is not a
recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
----------------------------------------------------------------

Filesystems from the device can now be mounted via my UDEV rules.

After installing the gvfs updates, nothing happens at all. No messages in
syslog and the filesystems don't appear in /dev

Presumably only affecting Testing, so probably not critical for mainstream
Debian users.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  gvfs-common   1.12.3-4
ii  gvfs-daemons  1.12.3-4
ii  gvfs-libs     1.12.3-4
ii  libc6         2.17-7
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.6.12-1
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.36.3-3
ii  libudev0      175-7.2

gvfs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends  1.12.3-4

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