On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I don't know. My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true. > It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two floppy > drives. And I can no longer reproduce the problem. Having a floppy > disk in the drive at boot time just once seems to have permanently > cured the problem. Did a udev rule get created as a result of a > "ready" floppy drive at boot time? I don't know. But I don't think > there's much point in filing a bug report if I can no longer reproduce > the problem and I don't know what cured it.
I spoke too soon. The problem has recurred. After some more trial- and-error experimentation, the problem now seems to be GNOME-related. I can mount and umount the floppy disk UNTIL I logon to GNOME. Then, things go haywire. I have been able to circumvent the problem by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Now only root can mount and umount floppies. Since GNOME does not run with root privileges, it can't mess me up. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2106438276.1006033.1292121041382.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
