If you select an unmountable volume from the "Disks" context menu, the only
error generated is on a line of console output.

* REPRODUCIBLE: Always

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1. Launch Nautilus, using it to draw the desktop
2. Be sure that you have no floppy inserted (or an Audio CD inserted)
3. Right-click on the desktop, and from the "Disks" submenu, select  "floppy"
(if you have no floppy inserted) or "cdrom" (if you have an audio CD)

* ACTUAL RESULTS: 

 For the CD, "mount: Wrong medium type". For the floppy, "mount: /dev/fd0 is not
a valid block device"

* EXPECTED RESULTS: 

  A more noticeable error should result. (This is probably a known issue, but
Darin didn't know of this bug offhand, nor can I find it reported in bugzilla.)



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-12-04 12:23:04 ----

oops.



------- Additional Comments From gzr@eazel.com 2000-12-04 12:46:52 ----

I have no idea what this bug report is about.  If there is no media in the
drive, you can't mount the device. It is simple. What is an unmountable volume?
I am confused.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-12-04 12:54:18 ----

Gene, if I can't mount the device, I suggest that it shouldn't be listed as a
type of media available to mount.

For example, as a Mac (and I think also Windows) user, I'm used to browsing
audio CDs directly from the Finder. 

If I try unsuccessfully to mount an audio CD in Linux, would I necessarily
realize from the user interface that the mount failure is not due to a bug in
Nautilus?



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-12-04 12:59:14 ----

A different way to put this is: There is a check box in the menu. This implies
that choosing that menu item will toggle the state of the check box. If choosing
the menu item does not toggle the state of the check box, and no error message
is presented to the user, then the user will (naturally) assume that the check
box has been successfully toggled. But in this case, it hasn't, so the UI has
misled the user.



------- Additional Comments From daemonc@netscape.net 2000-12-04 22:38:16 ----

This may be a good reason to consider alternative interfaces for mounting disks.
 See bug 44970




------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-12-29 11:11:55 ----

Verified fixed. An error is now generated upon attempting to mount a cdrom or
floppy should either drive be empty.

(If I may nitpick, I think the errors still have a "We're a shell on top of a
user-hostile OS" feel to them. However, I'll save those complaints for post
1.0.1.)



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:48 -------