Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I have been trying to install Lucid as a Guest OS onto to an SD card
using Virtualbox-OSE running on Lucid as the Host OS. I've been doing it
over and over and it failed each time.
I believe I've found the problem and it's the automount behaviour from
Gnome/Nautilus.
After the Lucid installer in Virtualbox has completed formatting and
unmounting the filesystem, and before it writes the grub information and
reboots, Gnome/Nautilus steps in and automounts the SD card, killing the
install process in Virtualbox, which throws an error like "error
mounting filesystem, daemon is inhibited".
This behaviour makes the final installation (which took several hours
each time) unbootable, since it never gets to finish the install.
Can anyone provide information of how to turn this behaviour off in the
host OS using a graphical tool, or a workaround using config files. I've
tried very many things but none of them seem to apply to Lucid. It
proceeds to helpfully remount the card whenever I put it back in (which
is I think equivalent to the reappearance of the filesystem after
reformatting in the guest OS).
I believe people who author helpful automated behaviours, whatever they
are, should be REQUIRED to provide a straightforward way to turn them
off, as they seem to create almost as many problems as they solve, and
it's a fraction of the work to provide an off button.
Interestingly, the only partition which I DO want automounted is never
automounted on boot - my windows partition which contains my music :(
However I suspect boot time mounting is a different question.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.34~kms1-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 31 09:49:50 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid ubuntu-une
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Linux install in Virtualbox broken by authoritarian automount behaviour
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587812
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