[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#648810: udisks-daemon: regression from squeeze: partitions on USB disks are not scanned by default

[Bjørn Mork]

Package: udisks
Version: 1.0.4-2
Severity: normal
File: udisks-daemon

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udisks-daemon(8) states

       udisks-daemon provides the org.freedesktop.UDisks service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never
       need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application calls into the
       org.freedesktop.UDisks service.

However, this does not consider the situation when *nothing* ever calls into the
org.freedesktop.UDisks service, a condition which is perfectly normal on any
non-desktop (or even non-gnome?) system.  On such systems, udisks-daemon will not
run.  And since partition scanning now is left up to udisks-daemon, this means that
the partitions of e.g. newly attached USB disks are not automatically detected.

There are a number of workarounds, like just firing up udisk(1) which will
trigger udisks-daemon to start, or running partprobe(8) manually after
attaching a new disk.  But I still want to report this as a bug, since it
represents a usability regression from squeeze.


Thanks,
Bjørn


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages udisks depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1   
ii  libatasmart4           0.18-1     
ii  libc6                  2.13-21    
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.16-1   
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1     
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1     2:1.02.67-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.28.8-1   
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         172-1      
ii  liblvm2app2.2          2.02.88-1  
ii  libparted0debian1      2.3-8      
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.102-1    
ii  libsgutils2-2          1.32-1     
ii  libudev0               172-1      
ii  udev                   172-1      

Versions of packages udisks recommends:
pn  dosfstools           3.0.12-1                
pn  eject                2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-8
pn  hdparm               9.32-1                  
pn  mtools               4.0.12-1                
pn  ntfs-3g [ntfsprogs]  1:2011.4.12AR.7-1       
pn  policykit-1          <none>                  

Versions of packages udisks suggests:
pn  cryptsetup     2:1.3.0-3
pn  mdadm          <none>   
pn  reiserfsprogs  <none>   
pn  xfsprogs       <none>   

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