Can no longer mount ntfs-3g ..... workarounds?

Szabolcs Szakacsits szaka at ntfs-3g.org
Fri Jun 27 15:00:35 UTC 2008


Tom London <selinux <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Kernel versions since about 0.81 can no longer mount ntfs-3g filesystems 
> for me.
> I've BZ'ed this here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452438
> 
> The symptoms appear that the call to mount just hangs.

This is probably the kernel Smack problem fixed here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e97dcb0eadbb821eccd549d4987b653cf61e2374

If not then please send the stack traceback of the hanging 
mount process (echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger).

Regards,   Szaka

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NTFS-3G: http://ntfs-3g.org

> Since hal sees my NTFS partition on my hard drive and gvfs-fuse wants
> to mount it each time I log in, I end up with "hanging mount"
> processes, e.g.:
> 
>  3263 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount
>  3267 ?        S      0:00 /bin/mount -t ntfs-3g -o
> nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=en_US.UTF-8 /dev/sda1
> /media/IBM_PRELOAD__
>  3268 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1
> /media/IBM_PRELOAD__ -o rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> Sometimes I see a hung gnome-mount process too.
> 
> Not 100% sure, but this seems to block subsequent hal-type mounts
> (e.g., if I insert a CD, etc.).
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?  Anyone have a workaround?
> 
> thanks,
>    tom







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