Package: libmount1 Version: 2.39.1-3 Severity: important Hello, thanks for maintaining util-linux in Debian!
After upgrading to version 2.39.1-3, I experienced the following issue. When I try to use 'pmount' to mount a vfat filesystem on a USB mass storage device (a digital photocamera, in the present case) I get a weird error message, claiming that the NTFS signature is missing. Well, it's a vfat filesystem, so no surprise it's missing NTFS features... $ pmount sdb1 camera NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around? NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around? If I use 'mount' (as the root user) and explicitly specify the filesystem type, the partition is correctly mounted: # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt However, this is impractical, as it requires root privileges. As soon as I downgrade package libmount1 (and package mount) to version 2.38.1-6, everything works again as usual: $ pmount sdb1 camera $ df --si /media/camera Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 512M 7.0M 506M 2% /media/camera What's going on? Has libmount1/2.39.1-3 lost the capability to recognize vfat filesystems? Please investigate and fix this bug as soon as possible. Thanks for your time and for any help you may provide! -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libmount1 depends on: ii libblkid1 2.39.1-3 ii libc6 2.37-6 ii libselinux1 3.5-1 libmount1 recommends no packages. Versions of packages libmount1 suggests: pn cryptsetup-bin <none> -- no debconf information
