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Ubuntu 9.04: A question about Storage Device Manager (pysdm).

Bug #420681 reported by moma
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Bug Description

Hello,

On 64bit Ubuntu 9.04.
I start the Storage Device Manager (pysdm) program from the System -> Administration menu.

When I select my /dev/sda2 partition, a messagebox appears and keeps nagging about /dev/sdc1 partition (/dev/sdc1 is my MP3 player). Why is it addressing the /dev/sdc1 device when I click on /dev/sda2?

The message is: "/dev/sdc1 has not been configured. Do you want to configure it now?".

The same messagebox also appears when I click on the /dev/sdc1, but that's correct behavior. The other /dev/sda? and /dev/sdb? devices do not say nothing (they are already configured and ok).

See the attached picture.

$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000b7d5

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5099 40957686 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 5100 10199 40965750 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 10200 15298 40957717+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 15299 30401 121314847+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 15299 20652 43005973+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 20653 26006 43005973+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 26007 26735 5855661 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 26736 27221 3903763+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 27222 30401 25543318+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000677e0

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9726 78124063+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9727 19452 78124095 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 19453 29178 78124095 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 29179 38913 78196387+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 2008 MB, 2008023040 bytes
1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63256 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00082a5f

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 63257 1960959+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
moma@ubuntu64:~$

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One thing.
I run custom compiled kernel on Ubuntu 9.04.
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu64 2.6.30.5-candela #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 20:38:10 CEST 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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moma (osmoma) wrote :
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moma (osmoma) wrote :

The version of pysdm is:

$ dpkg -l | grep pysdm
ii pysdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu2 Graphical Storage Device Manager

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moma (osmoma) wrote :

$ cat etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/sdb2 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/sda7 /tmp ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda8 none swap sw 0 0

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ext4 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda9 /media/sda9 ext3 relatime 0 2

/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sdb3 /media/sdb3 ext4 relatime 0 2
/dev/sdb4 /media/sdb4 ext3 relatime 0 2

## usbfs is the USB group in fstab file:
# none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=124,devmode=664 0 0
moma@ubuntu64:~/cvs/pysdm-0$

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Rod J (rod-jamieson) wrote :

I've noticed the same bug myself. It's weird and off-putting, you don't know what it's going to do, especially as the documentation for this utility is near non-existent.

It would certainly be a useful utility for noobs like myself who would prefer not to edit the fstab file directly.

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moma (osmoma) wrote :

Hi,
This error still exists in Ubuntu 9.10.

$ apt-cache show pysdm
Package: pysdm
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 292
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Jaime Soriano Pastor <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-support (>= 0.7.1), libblkid1, python-gtk2, python-glade2
Recommends: gksu
Filename: pool/universe/p/pysdm/pysdm_0.4.1-0ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 29124
MD5sum: 7ca624aeed8c56f88a8d6d09e05944b5
...

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

pydsm has been removed from Ubuntu. See bug 1005279 for more details.

Changed in pysdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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