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

[Arthur Marsh]

Hi, I think that the problem eventually disappeared and I am no longer 
using the Nokia handset so unable to re-test.

Please close the bug.

Regards,

Arthur.

Michael Biebl wrote on 19/12/16 08:11:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
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> Hi Arthur,
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> apologies for not replying earlier.
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> 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,
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>> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
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>>    * What led up to the situation?
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> udev 204-9 onwards showed the error messages.
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>> 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.
>>
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> Is this problem still reproducible on an up-to-date sid system?
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