Bug#765900: udev: versions later than 204-8 generate error messages when Nokia handset plugged in as USB mass storage

[Michael Biebl]

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Hi Arthur,

apologies for not replying earlier.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:46:24 +1030 Arthur Marsh
<arthur.marsh at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Package: udev
> Version: 204-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> With recent packages in unstable I was getting errors when plugging
> a Nokia C5-00 handset into a USB socket as a mass storage device
> (see Debian bug report #765801).
> 
> After trying different versions of packages based on source package
> util-linux and different versions of libusb-1.0-0 I finally tried
> different versions of udev. (I also tried kernels from post 3.17.0 back
> to 3.2.0 without seeing any change of behaviour).
> 
> udev 204-8 is the most recent version that does not result in error
> messages in dmesg when the handset it plugged in as a USB storage 
> device.
> 
> udev 204-9 onwards showed the error messages.
> 
> Furthermore blkid didn't show the device until downgraded to the packages
> based on util-linux 2.20.1-5.11, and the mount command without the -t vfat
> option would fail until the packages based on util linux were downgraded.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> There seems to be something crazy happening when something is trying to 
> guess the filesystem type and outputting errors as seen in the reports for
> bug #765801.
> 

Is this problem still reproducible on an up-to-date sid system?


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