Bug#996205: bulls-eye upgrade exfat problem

Andi Glaeser mobil <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Oct 2021 07:40:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.testing
Message-ID <2dfb74f3-970a-a8b2-5460-9351a9472cd0__35026.8007068493$1635314610$gmane$org@irregulaire.info>

It turned out, that some devices have USB-problems, when you connect 
them to the upgraded notebook. Particularly with GNOME and KDE Desktops, 
so in this regard Cinnamon seems better, see screenshot.

But still there are some troubles:

> andrew@eb8440p:~$ ate search exfat
> i   exfat-fuse                      - read and write exFAT driver for FUSE      
> i   exfat-utils                     - utilities to create, check, label and dump
> p   exfatprogs                      - tools to create, check and label exFAT fil
> p   forensics-samples-exfat         - Set of files to help learn/test forensics 
> andrew@eb8440p:~$ ate show exfat-fuse exfat-utils exfatprogs
> Package: exfat-fuse                      
> Version: 1.3.0-2
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Priority: optional
> Section: otherosfs
> Maintainer: Sven Hoexter <[email protected]>
> Architecture: amd64
> Uncompressed Size: 72.7 k
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), fuse
> Recommends: exfat-utils
> Description: read and write exFAT driver for FUSE
>  fuse-exfat is a read and write driver implementing the extended file allocation
>  table as a filesystem in userspace. A mounthelper is provided unter the name
>  mount.exfat-fuse.
> Homepage: https://github.com/relan/exfat
> 
> 
> Package: exfat-utils
> Version: 1.3.0-2
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Priority: optional
> Section: otherosfs
> Maintainer: Sven Hoexter <[email protected]>
> Architecture: amd64
> Uncompressed Size: 237 k
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
> Recommends: exfat-fuse
> Conflicts: exfatprogs
> Description: utilities to create, check, label and dump exFAT filesystem
>  Utilities to manage extended file allocation table filesystem. This package
>  provides tools to create, check, dump and label the filesystem. It contains 
>  * dumpexfat to dump properties of the filesystem 
>  * exfatfsck / fsck.exfat to report errors found on a exFAT filesystem 
>  * exfatlabel to label a exFAT filesystem 
>  * mkexfatfs / mkfs.exfat to create a exFAT filesystem. 
>  The tools included in this package are the exfat-utils developed as an
>  independent implementation by the exfat-fuse author, the tools build by Samsung
>  engineers for the Linux exFAT implementation are available in the exfatprogs
>  package.
> Homepage: https://github.com/relan/exfat
> 
> 
> Package: exfatprogs
> Version: 1.1.0-1
> New: yes
> State: not installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: otherosfs
> Maintainer: Sven Hoexter <[email protected]>
> Architecture: amd64
> Uncompressed Size: 165 k
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17)
> Conflicts: exfat-utils
> Description: tools to create, check and label exFAT filesystems
>  Tools to manage extended file allocation table filesystem. This package
>  provides tools to create, check and label the filesystem. It contains 
>  * mkfs.exfat to create an exFAT filesystem 
>  * fsck.exfat to check and repair an exFAT filesystem 
>  * tune.exfat to print and edit the filesystem label 
>  The tools included in this package are the exfatprogs maintained by Samsung
>  engineers, who provided Linux exFAT support. A similar but independent
>  implementation of these tools, written by the author of the exfat-fuse
>  implementation, are available in the exfat-utils package.
> Homepage: https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs
> 
> 

You can either install exfat-utils or exfat-progs and some devices will 
not work, as before the upgrade.
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