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devicekit-disks package

  1. Bug #419663
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 419663

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I backported the patch to the karmic package and built a test package in my PPA:

  https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/sru-test

This is the only update in that PPA, so it's safe to just add it and upgrade your system.

I can't reproduce the crash myself, so I would like to get a confirmation from some of you that it works now.

Also, I would be very interested in learning how the invalid SMART data actually looks like. Could some of you please install the update, then do

  sudo /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon --replace 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dkd.log

and then reproduce the situation which previously led to this crash? (I think that for some of you it happened each time when you plugged in a particular USB hard disk). I'm looking for a message like

   Error decoding ATA SMART data: invalid base64 format: [...]

Once you got that, please attach /tmp/dkd.log here.

Thank you!