[Bug 1060484] Re: When using gparted com.canonical.Unity.Devices blacklist is set back to Default of []

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 18 June 2013 17:43, Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:
> The script that invokes GParted uses hal-lock, udisks, devkit-disks, and
> most recently systemctl to exclusively lock or otherwise prevent
> automounting on disk devices.
>
> The history of these tools being installed by default in Ubuntu appears
> to be:
>
> -  Uses HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) at least from 10.04 to 10.10
> -  Uses udisks from 11.04 to 12.04
> -  Uses udsisk2 from 12.10 to
>
> Note that udisks2 does not appear to provide a facility to exclusively
> lock the device or otherwise prevent automounting.
>

Actually it does.
/usr/lib/udisks2/udisks2-inhibit

wrapper script was added in the package to inhibit udisks2. Originally
upon request from ubiquity installer & usb-creator.


Regards,

Dmitrijs.

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Title:
  When using gparted  com.canonical.Unity.Devices blacklist is set back
  to Default of []

Status in Unity:
  Invalid
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Test Case:
  blacklist one or more internal volumes in Unity (r. click on launcher icon > Unlock from Launcher
  confirm the volume(s) are now in the com.canonical.Unity.Devices blacklist
  Start gparted, drive(s) will be added to the launcher, blacklist will be reset back to []

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: gparted 0.12.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct  2 18:10:31 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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