FC3-kernel bug? Mount: can't find /media/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Thu Sep 1 15:41:33 UTC 2005


>>>>> "o" == oyvinst  <yvind> writes:

o> I think /etc/fstab is updated once the service haldaemon is
o> started. It calls /usr/sbin/fstab-sync to insert entries for /media
o> devices and such. If haldaemon fails to detect a floppy device, I
o> guess no entry for it will be found in /etc/fstab.

Correct, but since a kernel update a while ago the name of the floppy
device files in sysfs changed and hal no longer finds them.  Patch to
hal that works for me is in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163865

 - J<




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