This bug was originally reported at the Ubuntu bugtracker: https://launchpad.net/bugs/83327 [...] Using an up-to-date Feisty installation, after inserting my usb memory stick, it gets mounted with an iPod icon and Rhythmbox is automatically started, showing the disk as "USB Flash Disk Music Player". [...] Here's the lsusb output. The mentioned device is the one with ID 090c:1000 $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 090c:1000 Feiya Technology Corp. Memory Bar Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 [...] The cause of the problem is the following: The hal-info git tree has this device listed as a portable audio player. See here: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal-info.git;a=blob_plain;f=fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi [...] Workaround: As a workaround you could edit /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi and remove the whole section dealing with the "<!-- Feiya Technology Corp Memory Bar -->" device from "match key" to "/match". This would prevent it from showing up with the iPod icon and prevent rhythmbox from launching. [...] It seems that other USB sticks with the same ID exhibit the same problem.
Need the complete output of lshal (as attachment)
Created attachment 9040 [details] lshal output after having attached the usb stick Here is the output of lshal as requested. This output was generated while the USB stick was still attached to a USB port. Please let me know if you require further information.
I deliberately did not forward this bug upstream, because the affected FDI rule was still an Ubuntu specific patch (and thus got reverted now). I let them 'mature' in Ubuntu for a while to make sure that they do not cause ill effects with other hardware. Thus I think that this can be closed.
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