[Bug 1332623] Re: Thunar behaves inconsistently with USB flash drive FAT32 partitions

[MDE]

I've found this bug on Ubuntu 17.10 with Thunar version 1.6.12-1
yesterday, and after a bit digging found the root cause in the gio part
of glib:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787731

They have found it using Nautilus earlier and created a fix, which was
released in glib-2.55. Unfortunately the newest libglib2.0-0 available
in Ubuntu (artful and bionic) is 2.54.1-1ubuntu1 which doesn't contain
the fix.


** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #787731
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787731

** Also affects: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Thunar behaves inconsistently with USB flash drive FAT32 partitions

Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in thunar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I installed Xubuntu 14.04 and performed no customizations or
  reconfigurations.

  Observation:  Thunar 1.6.3 ("File Manager" from menu) on Xubuntu 14.04 handles write permission to inserted USB flash drives inconsistently:
  * I am able to create a nil file on the flash drive with Thunar and edit it.  Clearly, the flash drive is not read-only.
  * Using Thunar, I cannot copy an existing file (E.g. ~/.profile) and paste it on the flash drive - "destination is read-only" (not true!).
  * However, in a terminal window, `cp` with the flash drive as a destination succeeds.

  I tried this on drives by different manufacturers and with differing
  capacities and on two different Xubuntu 14.04 installations.

  There might be a configuration change for Thunar to allow paste to
  flash drives.  If so, this should be enabled when Thunar is installed
  as this behaviour is what users expect.

  Note: I created the FAT32 partition with `gparted` on Linux.  I also
  got the same results after creating a FAT32 partition using an MACOSX
  system.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: thunar 1.6.3-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Fri Jun 20 11:30:40 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-19 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
  SourcePackage: thunar
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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