Bug#420893: konqueror: Can't (u)mount partitions which are being referred to with LABEL or UUID in /etc/fstab
Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
If system's /etc/fstab defines a partition with LABEL or UUID and with
mount option "user" or "users", then Konqueror is unable to mount or
umount such partitions. To reproduce:
1) Put something like the following to system's /etc/fstab:
LABEL=volumelabel /mnt/mountpoint ext3 defaults,users,noauto 0 0
In which the "volumelabel" is real label of some partition. Find the
label with "tune2fs -l /dev/hdXY | grep volume". Alternatively you can
use UUID.
2) In Konqueror go to URL media:/ and try to mount this partition.
A window pops up: "TITLE: Error - kio_media_mounthelper" / "Permission
denied" / "OK". Still it is possible to mount this partition from shell
with command "mount /mnt/mountpoint". "pmount LABEL=volumelabel" works
too.
Additional thoughts: Newer Linux kernels (2.6.20 or something) no longer
name IDE disks with hda, hdb, hdc etc. but with sda, sdb, sdc etc.
- just like SATA disks or removable media. This means that there is no
guarantee anymore that even the system partitions (root, /home etc.)
always have the same device names in /dev. Partitions must be referred
to with LABEL or UUID as some Linux distributions already do. Hence this
Konqueror bug is becoming more and more relevant.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii kcontrol 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 control center for KDE
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kdesktop 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 miscellaneous binaries and files f
ii kfind 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 file-find utility for KDE
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudio2 1.8-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfam0 2.7.0-12 Client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq4 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core libraries for Konqueror
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
konqueror recommends no packages.
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