On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:59:04AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.7-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I'm using testing. Since a few days ago, when I insert my usb stick with
> a filesystem called "Mr. Brown", it no longer gets mounted at
> "/media/Mr. Brown", and instead gets mounted at "/media/sda1" (or
> whatever the device file happens to be). This breaks various scripts and
> other setups of mine that rely on a deterministic name for that
> particular usb stick.

Just tried to reproduce this. Called my usb stick ''Mr. Black'' and that works
fine. I gues the version of pmount in testing is too old, causing some
breackage. Could you try the pmount version from unstable ?

> I was told by piman on IRC that this seems to be because
> /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-mount checks that the label is
> acceptable, and since the label contains a space, it isn't acceptable.
> It used to be, without any ill effects, so I think the new stricter rule
> is harmful, and would like to see it reverted.

We don't use that hal callout currently in debian, but instead we're using
pmount. I agree fully with you that when we switch to the hal callouts, mounts
with spaces should still works fine.

  Sjoerd
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