[Bug 297338] Re: Sugar does not see/mount USB Flash drive

[mungewell]

Couple of points

1). I am an idiot. The Sandisk is only 512MByte version, so it unlikely
to be an issue with large disks.

2). If I insert a 'working' USB key with sugar-emulator running it is
sometimes mounted UID=1000 (my user ID) and sometimes mounted UID=500.
There seems to be a race condition here somewhere. Regardless of UID it
appears in the Journal.

3) The Sandisk shows the same 500/1000 issue with sugar-emulator, but
still doesn't appear in the Journal.

4) Without Sugar-emulator running they both always (so far) mount as
UID=1000.

Simon.

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Sugar does not see/mount USB Flash drive
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Status in “sugar” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: sugar

When inserted a USB Flash key is not seen by Sugar/Sugar-Emulator (it should show up the bottom bar of Journal, see http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/BackingUp), instead the USB Flash drive is mounted by the underlying OS.

At a (wild) guess there will need to be some HAL tinkering to ensure that Sugar gets notified and the underlying OS does not.
Mungewell.