Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: udev
I've found that Jaunty's udev makes an incorrect /dev/disk/by-uuid/
symlink for one of my ext3 partitions, where Intrepid's version got the
right uuid. On investigation, it turned out that the partition in
question contained residue of an NTFS bootsector (rather surprisingly,
since the partition in question was a manufacturer's preload of
*Linux*!)
I'm aware there have been multiple bugs on this general topic previously
closed as "Won't Fix", however in this case I believe there's a fairly
obvious and fixable bug in the code: In my scenario, the ntfs prober did
*not* detect the presence of an ntfs filesystem (i.e. vol_id --probe-all
returned *only* ext3). However, if you examine the source of the ntfs
prober, it overwrites the uuid field of the volume_id object long before
it actually decides there's a valid filesystem there - this resulted in
vol_id returning the rather bizarre combination of type=ext3, but a uuid
populated by the ntfs prober.
I think the probers should only write into the result object *after*
they've completed all their checks and decided that they are reporting
the presence of their filesystem type.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: udev 139-1
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: udev
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic x86_64
** Affects: udev (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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vol_id uuid detection regression
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337015
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