As the device is seen by udev and correctly created during the early boot it does not seem to be a bug in the kernel. It may be a permissions issue with the fd drive device as made by udev, or alternatively an issue at a higher level:
KERNEL[1258912797.217841] add /devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0 (block) UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0 SUBSYSTEM=block DEVNAME=fd0 DEVTYPE=disk SEQNUM=1006 MAJOR=2 MINOR=0 Will add tasks for those levels for confirmation. ** Also affects: gvfs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: udev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs