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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kdesktop: device icon mount/umount behavior broken by /etc/fstab edit
- From: Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:27:05 +0300
- Message-id: <E1BbGaQ-0001WG-9V@Ilmarinen>
Package: kdesktop
Version: 4:3.2.2-1
Severity: normal
I had a device icon on my KDE desktop for a removable HD (USB stick)
partition, /dev/sda1 on /keycard, user mount available.
Eventually, the system /etc/fstab was changed so that /keycard was
now associated with /dev/sda5:
/dev/sda5 /keycard ext3 rw,user,noauto,nosuid 0 0
After that, attempt to mount the fs using the icon caused /keycard to
be mounted from /dev/sda5, yet no mount indication was shown on the
icon, and it was impossible to umount the disk via the icon. Changing
the device in the icon properties/device tab from sda1 to sda5 restored
the icon back to normal. This had to be repeated for all users that had
such an icon on their desktop.
I find this behavior inconsistent. Either mount should not proceed at
all (because there is no /dev/sda1 on /keycard user mount available
any more), or, if what matters is just the mount point (i.e. the icon
is following /etc/fstab), there should be no device association stored
with the icon, just the mount point, and the device should be looked up
from /etc/fstab. Personally, I would prefer the latter behavior as it
is more consistent with the centralized mountpoint to device mapping via
the fstab.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R
Versions of packages kdesktop depends on:
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (binaries)
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.2-2 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-1 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq4 4:3.2.2-1 Core libraries for KDE's file mana
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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