Bug 790152

Summary: mounting a floppy disk does not work under KDE
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2 Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_DV81ZEWZkN
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 12.2   
URL: floppy:a/
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Found By: Community User Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: No
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Bug Depends on: 685589    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Christopher Yeleighton 2012-11-18 15:04:50 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #685589 +++

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

mounting a floppy disk as ordinary user does not work under KDE

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  0. Make sure you are in the floppy group.
  1. Open a KDE session.
  2. { sudo mkdir /media/floppy; }
  3. Place the following line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto user,noauto  0 0
  4. Insert a valid floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
  5. { mount /dev/fd0; }
  6. { mount | grep '^/dev/fd0'; }
Actual Results:  
  6. Nothing: /dev/fd0 is not mounted.

Expected Results:  
  6. /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy …

  1. mount without KDE works as prescribed.
  2. mount without mentioning /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab works 
     (only as superuser, which is not a solution).
  3. If a floppy disk is mounted before KDE loads, it remains mounted.
  4. Workaround: { udisks --mount /dev/fd0; }
  5. Floppy is gone from Dolphin’s Places, 
     not recognized by the Device Notifier and not mountable by solid-hardware.
However, you can create a reference to a floppy disk using the floppy I/O slave; it works only with KDE programs though.
Comment 1 Jiaying Ren 2012-11-20 04:11:58 UTC 
Hi,Christopher.Did you try it as root ?
Comment 2 Jiaying Ren 2012-12-04 03:05:53 UTC 
Long time no response.So closed. Feel free to reopen it.Thanks:)
Comment 3 Christopher Yeleighton 2013-07-29 19:15:56 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi,Christopher.Did you try it as root ?

I did step (2.) and (3.) as root.
Comment 4 Ye Yuan 2013-07-30 02:18:58 UTC 
Hi Christopher, 

Does this issue still exist?
Comment 5 Christopher Yeleighton 2013-07-30 19:19:32 UTC 
I do not (and probably will not) know about 12.2; Step (5.) succeeds in 12.3. and the floppy gets mounted.
Comment 6 Ye Yuan 2013-07-31 01:12:35 UTC 
Refer to comment 5, Closing it, feel free to reopen if you reproduce it. Thank you!