WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat! -- PROGRESS REPORT

[Rashkae]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 25/09/2010 15:53, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 25/09/2010 14:24, NoOp wrote:
>>    
>>> On 09/24/2010 08:05 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>      
>>>> This response being written on Maverick Meerkat (Beta #1) which was
>>>> upgraded to latest "stuff" only 1/2 hour ago.
>>>>
>>>> What you suggest above works on Lucid 10.04.1 - but I have to admit that
>>>> I don't know if it is the above which is doing it or the fact that I
>>>> downgraded to udisks1.0.1build1 late last night. In other words, the
>>>> 'test bed' has been 'contaminated' and the playing field has been changed.
>>>>
>>>> However, I am now in Maverick and the above does *NOT* work. And in
>>>> Maverick it doesn't appear to be a way of downgrading udisks to what
>>>> NoOp suggests in that bug report. I guess there must be a way but I
>>>> don't know what it is and don't have the expertise to fool around with
>>>> apt-get's various options.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> Short answer as I'm off working sailing races at the moment:
>>>
>>>      
>> Many thanks, NoOp.
>>    
> [pruned]
> 
> 
>> I'll do all this later today or early tomorrow.
>>    
> OK, the old udisks (build1) downloaded and installed on Meerkat.
> 
> Works like a charm. Every floppy recognised and contents displayed.
> 
> And I have locked this version in Synatic so that it won't be upgraded 
> into a regressive state....
> 
> (If it is this simple, why bother to keep providing upgraded versions of 
> udisks for Lucid and Maverick when they don't work? Why not install 
> build1 as a default?
> 
> There has to be a catch in there somewhere...... or is it simply too 
> logical to do this?)
> 
> BC
> 

As a rule of thumb, no matter how stupid it is, Ubuntu never rolls back 
'progress'... You're talking about the OS that by default, was 
permanently bricking several models of common SSD drives for *months* 
rather than remove the optional package that was causing the issue until 
upstream fixed it.