[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#529746: devicekit-disks (still) breaks usb mass storage support

[Justin Vander Ziel]

Package: devicekit-disks
Version: 004-1
Severity: normal

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My Kingmax USB thumbdrive stopped working after installing
devicekit-disks. Specifically, I was not able to mount the partition
using pmount nor use fdisk to view the partition information on the
drive. As the previous user indicated the problem seems to be a conflict
with
another daemon as subsequent execution of 'ls /dev/sd*' result in the
appearance
and disappearance of my partition /dev/sda1. Also I see repeated entries
with the following pattern in the kern log:
4.645457] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7897087 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.04
GB/3.76 GiB
4.648662] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
4.648671] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
4.648678] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Also with some regularity the kernel log seems to indicate a disk failure:
4.173585]  sda:<2>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
4.174713] Dev sda: unable to read RDB block 0
4.175269]  unable to read partition table
However, the drive works fine on Ubuntu (latest) using Linux
2.6.28 and under Windows XP. Also Windows XP does not report any device nor
partition problems.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devicekit-disks depends on:
ii  devicekit      003-1                     abstraction for enumerating
device
ii  libatasmart0   0.13-1                    ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and
parsing
ii  libc6          2.9-13                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3    1.2.14-2                  simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1 0.80-4                    simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdevkit-gobj 003-1                     abstraction for enumerating
device
ii  libdevmapper1. 2:1.02.30-3               The Linux Kernel Device Mapper
use
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.20.1-2                  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libparted1.8-1 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk
partitioning s
ii  libpolkit-dbus 0.9-3                     library for accessing PolicyKit
vi
ii  libpolkit2     0.9-3                     library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.6.13-1                  SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libudev0       0.141-1                   libudev shared library
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13         compression library - runtime

devicekit-disks recommends no packages.

devicekit-disks suggests no packages.

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