Okay, I can reproduce this by deleting the volume label (mlabel -c). So, it is a bug somewhere (though probably not in Thunar). The fact that the weird name shows up in /dev/disk/by-label suggests to me that it is at the kernel level, but I don't know much about that.
-- John On 11/04/2010 04:23 PM, John Lindgren wrote: > It seems the weird name was coming from a corrupted volume label in the > root folder of the filesystem. dosfslabel cannot read or set the volume > label in the root folder (#506786), hence my confusion. > > It still seems an unlikely coincidence that the volume label should have > gone corrupt at exactly the same time that I plugged both players into > the computer. I had mine plugged in earlier that day without any > problem. I will try to get a hold of the second player again and see if > I can reproduce this, and in particular if I can reproduce it without > Thunar and then without HAL running. > > -- John _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
