Mount usb drive with mount -a fails after f10 upgrade

[Rick Stevens]

Joe W. Byers wrote:
> Rick Stevens <ricks <at> nerd.com> writes:
> 
> PRUNED
>>> Rick,
>>>
>>> Yes it exists. It was auto mounting for 3 years with the old OS's 
> (EL4 and EL5)
>>> using fstab 
>> Different beasties than F10.  EL5 is based on FC6, that's why I asked.
>> Question: If you try a manual mount, does it work? E.g.:
>>
>> 	# mkdir /mnt/test
>> 	# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test
>>
> 
> Rick,
> 
> I did that. in fact that is my current workaround is to manually mount it 
> with
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc1 /media/usbdisk.
> 
> Yes EL5 is a different beast.  I have two f8 upgraded before the server 
> to f10
> workstations and a f10 laptop running on my home network with ldap login 
> and nfs
> shared home mounts.  I wanted to go to f10 to get the new user features
>  but the
> server is giving me these minor problems.

Hmmm, I wonder if the ext2 module has different defaults or if some
Ubuntu-ness (e.g. not setting the clock to UTC before fscking) has crept
into F10 somehow (now that'd be evil!).

If you add "nocheck" to the mount options in /etc/fstab, does it work on
a reboot?

To test for this date thing, you might try deleting the "nocheck" option
in /etc/fstab (if you tried it) and creating an /etc/e2fsck.conf file
containing:

	[options]
	    buggy_init_scripts = true

and try YAR (yet another reboot).

These are just wild guesses.  I'm booting an F10 machine with a couple
of USB drives on it and it works just fine.  Granted, the drives are ext3:

	/dev/sdc1 on /media/500GB-Drive type ext3
	    (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
	/dev/sdb1 on /media/CD-DVD-Images type ext3
	    (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

and they're not in my /etc/fstab...I'm letting udev/HAL mount them as
this is a workstation running at run level 5 (GUI and all that).
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