[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#561737: Bug#561737: [nautilus] can't mount floppy(no media in drive)

[Michael Biebl]

tags 561737 help
thanks

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> reassign 561737 devicekit-disks
> thanks
> 
> Le samedi 19 décembre 2009 à 18:58 -0500, Wendy Elmer a écrit : 
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>> When I go to the computer desktop icon and click on Floppy Drive with a floppy in the drive,
>> A popup window says "Unable to mount location No medium in the drive".  
>> I hear the floppy click when this happens.  If I try to mount manually from 
>> an exterm using mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>> it tells me
>> mount: only root can do that
>>
>> I used to be able to mount the floppy.  This is happening on 2 Squeeze 
>> computers.  Both were able to read the floppy a week or so ago.
> 
> This is probably caused by the switch to devicekit-disks. I don’t think
> any of us had a floppy drive to test, so you’ll be our guinea pig.

Yeah, I no longer own a computer with a floppy drive, so I can't reasonably
develop and test a patch for that (or even investigate this issue).
This is a call for help to anyone still caring for floppy drives to investigate
this and if necessary provide a patch.

Thanks,
Michael

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