Bug 11050

Summary:	Floppy drive: No entry in /etc/fstab; Login always raises Device Notifier for it
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Maurice Batey <maurice77>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	balcaen.john, lmenut, luigiwalser, mageia, stormi-mageia
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	14487
Bug Blocks:

Description Maurice Batey 2013-08-21 17:23:40 CEST

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Official 32-bit Mageia-3, fully updated


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Boot Mageia-3 from GAG bootloader on floppy
   (I suspect it would also happen if Mageia-3 booted from MBR.)

2.  At user login, system puts out a 0B Device Notifier, apparently for the floppy drive.

3. It does this even if the Mageia-2 /etc/fstab entry for fd0 is added into Mageia-3's /etc/fstab, and whether or not the floppy is removed as soon as Mageia-3 starts booting.

EITHER floppy drives should be properly supported (as they are in earlier Mageia's - also Mandriva, SUSE, PCLinuxOS, with none of which does this Device Notifier appear)

OR - if Mageia has taken the decision to drop support for floppy drives - it should say so and otherwise totally ignore them, not irritate users by this spurious Device Notifier!


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 David Walser 2013-08-21 18:29:18 CEST

Is this the same issue as Bug 9762?

Comment 2 Maurice Batey 2013-08-21 18:40:18 CEST

Looks like it, but this one has more information (e.g. no floppy entry in /etc/fstab).

(I did do a search for 'floppy drive' but it didn't pick up 9762.)

Just for good measure, here is a screen shot showing the Device Notifier:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10969499/notifier.png

David Walser 2013-08-22 22:42:27 CEST

CC: (none) => balcaen.john, lmenut, luigiwalser, nicolas.lecureuil

Comment 3 David Walser 2013-08-22 22:43:05 CEST

*** Bug 9762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-27 16:26:42 CEST

CC: (none) => stormi
Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 4 David Walser 2013-12-16 15:22:10 CET

Still valid in Cauldron.

Not loading the floppy module hides this issue, i.e.:
rm /etc/modprobe.preload.d/floppy

Version: 3 => Cauldron
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA3TOO

Luc Menut 2014-11-08 13:04:14 CET

Depends on: (none) => 14487

Luc Menut 2014-11-08 13:06:49 CET

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061

Comment 5 Luc Menut 2014-11-08 13:18:22 CET

upstream bugreport
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061

fixed upstream with
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/42310a7851049d7706c66874f363ce7ef73655df

This bug should be fixed in mga4 with the kdebase4-workspace update to 4.11.12.

Patch added for mga3 in kdebase4-workspace-4.10.5-1.2.mga3 (mga#14487).

copying here comment from 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061#c28
"With the above commit the notifier should no longer pop up on login warning you of an empty diskette drive (or any other media you have connected).
However, since there is no way to know wheter or not the drive contains a diskette or not, we have to keep showing the device all the time in case you ever need to mount a diskette.
If you are positive that you are never going to use the drive and you find the icon distracting you can safely disable it in BIOS or, otherwise, add a udev rule to ignore the drive, so that it will not be reported to KDE (or to any other piece of software)."

Hardware: i586 => All
Version: Cauldron => 3
Whiteboard: MGA3TOO => (none)

Comment 6 David Walser 2014-11-14 02:09:28 CET

Just fixed in http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0445.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 7 Maurice Batey 2014-11-14 14:52:25 CET

Available for Mageia-3 onwards (e.g. will be in a Mageia-4 update)?

Comment 8 David Walser 2014-11-14 14:58:53 CET

The Mageia 4 update will be packaged soon.

Comment 9 Luc Menut 2014-11-16 22:52:54 CET

Upstream bug 318061 was fixed in 4.11.10, so it should be fixed in kdebase4-workspace 4.11.12 available in mga4 core/updates.