https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User michael.dreher@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c2 Michael Dreher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|michael.dreher@gmx.net | --- Comment #2 from Michael Dreher 2008-07-26 13:29:41 MDT --- Maybe this is indeed a duplicate of 410852, but how can we know.... Now I can reproduce this on 3 boxes: 2 of them running opensuse 11.0, the other running debian (something new). The desktop is always kde 3.5. First I found it hard to believe that the desktop should be involved in this, so I made some experiments on one box with runlevels. It turned out that in runlevels 1 and 2 neither the sd-cardreader nor the external harddisk gets automounted. (just for information, of course runlevels 1 and 2 are quite useless). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User dkukawka@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c3 Danny Kukawka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |michael.dreher@gmx.net --- Comment #3 from Danny Kukawka 2008-07-27 06:47:10 MDT --- 1) please attach lshal output (as attachment) with the exteral HD added to the machine 2) please follow http://en.opensuse.org/HAL#HAL_don.27t_detect_a_device and attach the requested logs from the 'HAL don't detect a device' part -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User michael.dreher@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c5 --- Comment #5 from Michael Dreher 2008-07-27 23:56:20 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=230206) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=230206) output of lshal -m -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User michael.dreher@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c7 --- Comment #7 from Michael Dreher 2008-07-27 23:59:32 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=230209) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=230209) portion of /var/log/messages -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User michael.dreher@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c8 Michael Dreher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|michael.dreher@gmx.net | --- Comment #8 from Michael Dreher 2008-07-28 00:03:14 MDT --- Hope this helps. will be travelling for some days. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User michael.dreher@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c10 --- Comment #10 from Michael Dreher 2008-08-12 03:17:10 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=232889) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=232889) /var/log/messages of the first box on which /lib/udev/vol_id is run -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User dkukawka@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c12 Danny Kukawka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dkukawka@novell.com AssignedTo|dkukawka@novell.com |kasievers@novell.com --- Comment #12 from Danny Kukawka 2008-08-18 04:39:20 MDT --- Maybe your filesystem is broken, or vol_id has a problem (reassign to the vol_id maintainer for now.) @Kay: please take a look at it. Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User michael.dreher@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c14 Michael Dreher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|michael.dreher@gmx.net | --- Comment #14 from Michael Dreher 2008-08-18 15:24:16 MDT --- Yes, I expect a FAT filesystem to be recognized. Other file systems like an SD card are being recognized and automatically mounted, only this special external hard disk is not, starting from opensuse 11.0. Your comment "we can not do really anything for automounting" is certainly wrong, because you could give us the behaviour back from opensuse 10.2 and 10.3 when everything was fine and working normally. Reformatting the disk is unfortunately not an option. The whole purpose of an external hard disk is to provide additional storage space for huge data which you can not save otherwise. So reformatting would mean that I have to buy another hard disk first just to save the data before formatting, without any guarantee that this reformatting would lead to a "better" filesystem. Moreover, today I have checked the partition with windows XP several times (fast and thorough, with and without autorepairing), and chkdsk from windows XP always reported that everything is good. So it would be nice if you could tell us why the filesystem should be "invalid" ? It works under windows, it works if I mount it by hand under linux, so what should be wrong ? Is it possible that the checks which are mentioned in that git patch are unrealistically strict, making linux more popish than the Pope ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139 User kasievers@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139#c16 Kay Sievers changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #16 from Kay Sievers 2008-09-27 16:39:14 MDT --- We do not detect invalid FAT formats, because of additional checks we needed to exclude other filesystems wrongly detected as FAT. There is currently no simple solution to this problem, only reformatting the volume with correct filesystem signatures would make it auto-detectable. Sorry, for not having a better solution. I'll close this bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.