Package: ntfs-3g Version: 1:1.2531-1 Severity: important Hi Adam,
I'm part of the Debian pkg-utopia team which maintains hal. A recent bug report [1] against hal, brought to our attention, that mounting ntfs volumes from within KDE is broken, so potentially quite a few users are affected. You can read the details on the bug report [1] or at the discussion I started on the hal mailing list [2]. In short, it's about hal offering the locale= option for ntfs file systems, while the kernel fs driver does not support the locale= option. There are attempts to fix this in a more sophisticated way withing hal, which will also require updates to the mount tools of KDE and GNOME, but this is not doable for lenny. A proposed short term solution, is to remove the locale= option from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi and make the ntfs-3g package ship a fdi file, which adds the locale= option back and overrides the fstype to be ntfs-3g, i.e. if ntfs-3g is installed, hal will always use ntfs-3g when mounting ntfs volumes, which imo is an acceptable compromise and I'd like to get this fix into lenny. This requires, that the ntfs-3g package installs a file, like the one I've attached, to /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ As soon as you have updated the ntfs-3g to include this file, I'd upload an updated hal version, which removes the locale= option from 20-storage-methods.fdi and ask for freeze exceptions for lenny for both hal and ntfs-3g. If you are too busy, I'd offer to NMU ntfs-3g, if you grant me the permission to do it. Cheers, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497463 [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012329.html -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.3 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ntfs-3g depends on: ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libntfs-3g31 1:1.2531-1 ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (F ntfs-3g recommends no packages. ntfs-3g suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
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