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

[Michael Biebl]

On 15.11.2011 10:34, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> 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.

I can't see the usability regression. If no one is using the udisks
service, why should it be started?

Btw, the device probing is done by udev and its helpers and not udisks
itself, ie. if you attach a usb device, and then later start
udisks-daemon, your statement that those partitions wouldn't be detected
is simply not true.

Can you provide further information what kind of problem you are having?

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