Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

2009-12-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Torkil Olesen [2009-12-08 19:21 -]: > Scott! > Your answer #111 to Antec is arrogant and impertinent! > We are the users!!! Right, but this is a bug tracker, and as such making comments _here_ which do not help to advance the state/debugging of this problem are just wasting everyone's time. -

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

2009-12-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
Antec: you really aren't adding anything to the bug, all you're doing is annoying the users and developers who are subscribed to it. We are aware that there appears to be a problem with floppy disk support in the most recent version of Ubuntu. However we have something of a difficulty obtaining m

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

2009-12-04 Thread John
Martin Pitt wrote: > OK, I'm afraid none of the logs really help me. I need to get ssh access > to a machine with a floppy drive and a floppy inserted, with "admin" > privileges. Can someone provide that? > > Please install the third key from https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+sshkeys > , or send me an

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

2009-11-28 Thread John
KevinM wrote: > John. 9.04 works fine for me (both 32 and 64 bit), but not 9.10 or > 10.04. > > I agree, 9.04 is better. 8.04 have also worked flawlessly for a long time. -- [Karmic] floppy is not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notification because you ar

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

2009-11-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Scott James Remnant [2009-11-25 18:42 -]: > It shouldn't be retrofitted into the normal persistent storage rules > like that I agree. This is purely for testing, to see what else is missing. -- [Karmic] floppy is not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notifi

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

2009-11-23 Thread John
Scott James Remnant wrote: > The attached udev log shows that a device was created > > ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) >Status: New => Invalid > > I don't know anything about how it was made, I just know it don't work, so we will keep using older versions until it is fixed on the rest of

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

2009-11-23 Thread John
Andy Whitcroft wrote: > The device seems to be being detected correctly and udev informed as we > do get a /dev/fd0. So it seems either the device does not have > appropriate permissions, or the notification not being passed on to > higher layers, or indeed those layers may not be taking appropria

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

2009-11-23 Thread John
Andy Whitcroft wrote: > As the device is seen by udev and correctly created during the early > boot it does not seem to be a bug in the kernel. It may be a > permissions issue with the fd drive device as made by udev, or > alternatively an issue at a higher level: > > KERNEL[1258912797.217841] a

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

2009-11-23 Thread John
Antec wrote: > The company i work on have 103 Ubuntu computers and 80 of them are > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS the rest is 9.04. We have four to test the new Ubuntu > 9.10. If the 9.10 not work properly can we not upgrade any more > computers and we must wait and look on next LTS version and test them > very

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

2009-11-22 Thread John
Antec wrote: > I wonder if grub2 boot-reloader miss floppy module in the right way > already on boot? And i don't see the floppy at all in /etc/fstab or > /etc/mtab, but the green diod on yhe floppy blink when the computer > boot. > > I don't know what the developers did on this one. I sent in

Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

2009-11-17 Thread John
wraithmonk wrote: > Having the same problem in Kubuntu 9.10. 64-bit. Tried to format with > Kfloppy 4.3.0, KDE 4.3.3, but I the message "Internal error: device not > correctly defined". > > I fwd this to Sergio, one of the experts at Ubuntu bugs who is working a solution to this problem as wh