[Bug 54808] Nautilus (or gnome-vfs) should resolve symlinks in fstab before attempting mount

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nautilus

If a link exists in fstab, such as /dev/cdrom, instead of the actual
path, /dev/hdc or something, nautilus will not mount it and displays an
error message instead - detailed error message is:

mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


My /etc/fstab contains this line:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf     noauto,users,defaults,ro  0  0

~:/# ls -la /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-08-01 16:29 /dev/cdrom -> hdc

when I replace /dev/cdrom by /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab then nautilus mounts
CD disks without problems, but lots of people have removable CD/DVD
drives, and udev always creates symlink /dev/cdrom to first CD drive.

There are simmilar bugreports reported in GNOME bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155637
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149977

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Nautilus (or gnome-vfs) should resolve symlinks in fstab before attempting mount
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54808