[Bug 29044] Hald creates a lot of folders in /media/

mettallicat mettallicat at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 00:33:23 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29044

Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
So ... when i started my new and fresh Ubuntu Dapper Drake Fligth 3 i've
check my computer have a several of Floppy's.

See screenshots:

http://linuxcat.no.sapo.pt/tmp/dapper.png
http://linuxcat.no.sapo.pt/tmp/dapper2.png

and i've checked in terminal this too:

ricardo at aragon:/media$ ls -la
total 78
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:56 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom -> cdrom0
dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 2048 2006-01-15 21:16 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom7
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 cdrom8
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    7 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-19 23:29 floppy7
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2006-01-19 16:03 hdb1

But even doing this:

root at aragon:/media# rm -rf cdrom1 cdrom2 cdrom3 cdrom4 cdrom5 cdrom6 cdrom7 cdrom8
root at aragon:/media# rm -rf floppy*

It don't remove that flopy icons from my "Computer" in nautilus.

I think there is something wrong with libdbus or hald.

Note: I don't have a floppy driver and in BIOS i've set Floopy off.

Ricardo Leal, Portugal




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