Quantal shipped with "old" util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu2. This bug is serious as it can render the system unbootable, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1012081/comments/5 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1012081/comments/6
Human user does not expect to make its system unbootable just by following graphical tools and "disabling automatic mount option" for a data partitions (without changing any other settings). Furthermore, this scenario is likely to happen to other users that are tech-savvy enough (e.g. about partitions) but new to Linux. Their Ubuntu no longer boots, maybe days after they changed that option. Such bad scenario will make some users extremely disappointed by Ubuntu. Waiting for util-linux to be upgraded may not be an option. Disabling "x -gvfs-show" in gnome-disks seems IMHO safer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1011257 Title: x-gvfs-show option doesn't work Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: was reporting a separate bug #1010858 about double icons appearing for mounted filesystems, and it occurred to me that it was happening for volumes I had listed in /etc/fstab with uhelper=udisks, the mechanism i used in previous versions to mount internal drives and see them in launcher etc. In investigating, I found the apparently-new gnome-disk-utility "Disks" and that seems to have new options for doing this properly, but when I tried to use them in closest-to-default way, it failed. The attached screenshot shows the options I had set on a volume. Below is the line that generated in /etc/fstab: LABEL=Spinner /mnt/Spinner auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 It fails to mount when you try to mount it in the disk utility. An error dialogue opens with: Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdg1: Command-line `mount "/mnt/Spinner"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdg1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so (udisks-error-quark, 0) dmesg | tail gives: [ 619.470006] EXT4-fs (sdg1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value I expect the bug isn't so much in the disk utility app itself as in the underlying mount tools that have probably been compiled without a required option, but the user experience is that it fails when using the disk utility, hence reporting it here for now. I suspect I can make this work a different way using prior knowledge, to make it mount in /media and using uhelper=udisks2 - will be trying that in a moment - but this seemed the logical, minimal way to proceed for the new utility and it failed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.5.1-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 10 18:54:35 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-09 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1011257/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
