[Bug 1012081] Re: util-linux needs updating to 2.24.1

[Rachel Greenham]

I originally raised this bug a hell of a long time ago. The gnome-disk-
utility of that era had some nice functionality for end users which
looked like it would work well if the version of util-linux the feature
depended on was actually present.

Since that time, gnome-disk-utility has itself lost so much
functionality (eg: all understanding of raid arrays, which directly
affected me) that I gave up using it anyway and found out how to hack
/etc/fstab into doing it directly. That being the apparent mission of
gnome developers of course; to remove functionality until you can't
actually do anything any more. So tbh this no longer really affects me.
Years too late in getting the attention of anyone able to do anything
about it.

Maybe it does though. After all just a few days ago I tried to do a nice
simple task: reformat a usb stick to msdos/vfat et al. I was pressed for
time, so i ran "Disks" to do it, but it completely failed. I had to do
it on my mac laptop instead. So maybe this is why; as the distance
between the version of util-linux gnome-disk-utility needs and the
version present has stretched further apart over the years.

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Title:
  util-linux needs updating to 2.24.1

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “util-linux” source package in Raring:
  Triaged
Status in “util-linux” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Applications in the default desktop - specifically gnome-disk-utility
  - depend on behaviour only introduced in util-linux 2.21+.
  Specifically if you select "Show in user interface" in mount options,
  it adds the mount option "x-gvfs-show" to the mount options in
  /etc/fstab. Mounting of this mount point then fails because the option
  is unrecognised.

  Also reported bug from the other point of view in bug #1011257

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: util-linux 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jun 12 12:38:02 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-09 (3 days ago)

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