Description of problem: After some recent (since July 28th) updates to my Cauldron/KDE desktop, the Device Notifier now always shows my Floppy drive available as Removable Media, (previously it never showed it) but it cannot be mounted and dmesg shows these two errors each time I try: [ 2153.673025] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 2153.697025] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 I do have a /dev/fd0 mount line in my fstab but removing this has no effect on the Device Notifier. I believe the issue of not being able to mount the Floppy drive could be related to this bug report: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4642 I found a Fedora reference to the dmesg errors here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_kernel_problems and the suggestion was to add floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 to the kernel boot options. This does stop the Device Notifier from showing the Floppy drive but I don't see this as a solution. If the Floppy drive is truly not available the Device Notifier should not show it. It should not be necessary to add kernel boot options manually.
After updating 323 packages today the problem has gone away. I will change this bug report to RESOLVED and FIXED.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
This issue has returned at some point earlier this week after regularly updating my PC. I plan to do a new install when Beta1 is released so I will see what the situation is after the new installation and if necessary re-open this bug.
I have completed a clean install of M3B1 on a new partition and this issue is not present. I will now regularly update this install and see if the issue returns.