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[jglen490 <jglen490@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a darn shame that "the powers that be" don't care to fix something
that is still of a great deal of importance to a few hundred thousand
people - *buntu users.  I recently added a floppy drive to my machine.
It didn't work, but I just figured there was some package that didn't
get loaded.  So I found what I could with the fdutils package, and
eventually found a workaround including a requirement for manual (menu
select) mount and manual (menu select) umount, thanks to helpful users
in kubuntuforums.net.

I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 - which is a LTS release - and, yes, direct
support for floppy drives is lacking.  I realize that someone,
apparently having a great deal of power, would rather say WORKFORME than
to offer up a solution that might actually help those who otherwise like
and enjoy the (alleged) stability and utility of a long term support
Linux distro.  At least an answer of WONTFIX would have been an honest,
as well as consistent answer.

I'm glad it works in PJSingh5000's platform, and I look forward to a
later Kubuntu LTS that actually works the way that Kubuntu used to work
before floppies were randomly pushed aside.  And that WORKS FOR ME.
Thank you.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835

Title:
  Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found"

Status in obsolete project:
  Fix Released
Status in GVFS:
  Unknown
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  Invalid
Status in udev - /dev/ management daemon:
  Invalid
Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices:
  Invalid
Status in “devicekit-disks” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in “udisks” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged
Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Karmic:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux” source package in Karmic:
  Invalid
Status in “udisks” source package in Karmic:
  Invalid
Status in “udisks” package in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in “udisks” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Karmic GNOME, floppies are detected correctly by linux, udev,
  devkit-disks, and gvfs. However, when clicking on the floppy icon in
  GNOME, you get a "no medium found" error.

  Remote reproducer: gvfs-mount -li

   - When you just start that with no other processes running, you get a correct "volume" for /dev/fd0 ("floppy0").
   - When you start it through dbus-launch, you get a floppy0 "drive" instead, and no volume

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