Bug#322191: gnus: 2 versions of gnus on my system

So is there any chance of this being fixed some day? Leaving the out of date version of gnus in the emacs package wastes space and caused confusion due to it being old. I suggest that it be stripped from the emacs package, and that the stand alone gnus package be recommended. -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#304342: Man page patch

/debian/changelog +++ reiserfsprogs-3.6.19/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +reiserfsprogs (1:3.6.19-4ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low + + * Changed man page for mkreiserfs to note that block sizes other than +4096 bytes are NOT supported by current kernels + + -- Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#304342: Fix the man page?

We have a few bugs filed in Ubuntu for this as well. Setting this bug as the upstream report. Can we at least change the man page for mkfs.reiserfs to not indicate that any size other than 4096 bytes is currently supported by the kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#707029: mount: UUID is not used to specify ext4 external journal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 severity 559317 minor reassign 707029 e2fsprogs merge 559317 707029 thanks This is a duplicate of bug #559317, which I reassigned to e2fsprogs from util-linux last month, because it isn't the job of mount to perform special processing on filesystem

Bug#734113: wiki search doesn't like dashes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wiki.debian.org Trying to search for "debian-cd" on the wiki finds 57 other pages that contain "cd" and only finally lists "debian-cd" at the end. Quoting it does not help. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comm

Bug#717239: partman-ufs: depends on obsolete package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It also depends on ufsutils-udeb, which is only built on kfreebsd. It seems to me that this package needs changed from all to kfreebsd only. This prevents building d-i monolithic images. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32)

Bug#738864: Remove copy operation for parted3 transition

tman-partitioning-100/debian/changelog 2014-02-13 10:04:13.0 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +partman-partitioning (100) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove partition copy operation for libparted 3 transition + + -- Phillip Susi Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:03:14 -0500 + partman-partitioning (99)

Bug#738864: Remove copy operation for parted3 transition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/13/2014 12:08 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Out of curiocity, why libparted is needed to copy a partition into > some other place? How about > > dd if=/dev/source-partition of=/dev/dest-partition > > ? > > (Well, with proper options, maybe with

Bug#738919: parted3 preparations

bian/changelog 2014-02-13 14:16:19.0 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +partman-ext3 (82) unstable; urgency=low + + * Pick up support for ext2 + + -- Phillip Susi Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:15:28 -0500 + partman-ext3 (81) unstable; urgency=low [ Updated translations ] diff -Nru partman-ext3-81/d

Bug#738922: parted3 preparation

fi + db_progress STOP if [ "$status" != OK ]; then db_subst partman-basicfilesystems/create_swap_failed TYPE linux-swap diff -Nru partman-basicfilesystems-90/debian/changelog partman-basi

Bug#738923: parted3 preparations

@@ +partman-base (173) unstable; urgency=low + + * parted_server: remove support for filesystem create/check/copy +and link to libparted2 instead of libparted0. + + -- Phillip Susi Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:57:20 -0500 + partman-base (172) unstable; urgency=low [ Updated translations ] diff -Nru

Bug#738923: parted3 preparations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/14/2014 12:09 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The parted3 transition is about transitioning from libparted0 to > libparted2? Anyway, why is the -dev package versioned at all? > Unless you keep several source packages in the archive for a while, > th

Bug#665342: closed by Phillip Susi (please skip mounts with mount point "none" in /etc/fstab)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/14/2014 2:02 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Of course I know noauto, but a mount point "none" would be more > easy to parse, generate and change, and it would be more intuitive > to use. > > Currently using "none" give me just a warning at boot time.

Bug#648579: closed by Phillip Susi (/bin/mount should create missing mount point)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/14/2014 2:35 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > How comes you are closing bug reports for foreign packages? When > you say "I'm going to have to reject this request", are you > speaking on behalf of the package maintainer or of upstream?

Bug#738922: parted3 preparation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I made one small mistake with this patch. It turns out there aren't symlinks for mkfs.fat{16,32}, so the mkfs line needs changed from mkfs.$filesystem to mkfs.vfat -F ${filesystem#fat}. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) C

Bug#681261: update fstab even if non-existent (possibly fstab.d too)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For what it's worth, I agree with Rui that this is a bug in live-build, not partman. I'm not sure how it gets that way since Ubuntu's live-build still has that touch command, but the live squashfs image on Ubuntu's install cds does not have the fstab.

Bug#739006: Switch to mkdosfs instead of libparted

5:45:19.0 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +partman-efi (40) unstable; urgency=low + + * Switch to using mkdosfs instead of libparted + + -- Phillip Susi Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:44:22 -0500 + partman-efi (39) unstable; urgency=low [ Updated translations ] diff -Nru partman-efi-39/debian/control partma

Bug#739155: util-linux: fsck is broken

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 tags 739155 + moreinfo thanks On 02/16/2014 04:37 AM, Stephan Goll wrote: >> mount | grep " / " > /dev/block/8:4 on / type ext3 > (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered) > > >> cat /proc/mounts | grep " / " > rootfs /

Bug#648579: closed by Phillip Susi (/bin/mount should create missing mount point)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reopen 648579 tags 648579 + fixed-upstream pending thanks On 2/18/2014 9:35 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > This is just 50% of the story. Since mount cannot create mount > points, you have to enter the directory name _twice_ (/etc/fstab > and on the mkd

Bug#739006: Switch to mkdosfs instead of libparted

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/19/2014 10:14 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > This *looks* sane enough to me, but I've not had a chance to test > it directly yet. What testing have you done, please? None yet. I guess I could figure out how to get qemu to emulate an efi system. On

Bug#737247: gparted resizes partition to smaller than the filesystem

Yikes, looks like gparted has an off by one: it set the partition size one sector two small. Do you have any thoughts on this Curtis? On 01/31/2014 02:16 PM, ano...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > Package: gparted > Version: 0.17.0-4 > > I tried to shrink-and-move a partition on an external hard

Bug#737247: gparted resizes partition to smaller than the filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/02/2014 12:35 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > Hi Anomie and Phillip, > > There was a recent change in GParted 0.16.2 that is directly > related to resizing ext2/3/4 file systems. Specifically the change > no longer subtracts 1 kiB from the file sys

Bug#737247: gparted resizes partition to smaller than the filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/02/2014 04:24 PM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > Initial reaction is that these days it is unusual to have an odd > number of sectors in a partition. I guess cylinder or no > alignment was used, rather than the default MiB alignment. Yes, the parti

Bug#559317: mount should translate ext3 journal_dev option into device number

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 559317 e2fsprogs thanks Sending back to e2fsprogs. Please don't reassign back without giving a reason. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEB

Bug#737658: Time to drop the eject package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: eject It looks like this utility has landed in upstream util-linux. Is it time to drop this package and add a Replaces: eject to util-linux? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbir

Bug#737672: util-linux bash completion files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: bash-completion It appears that upstream util-linux now ships their own bash completion files that conflict with a number from the bash-completion package. Should these files be dropped from the bash-completion package in favor of the ones i

Bug#732117: loop no longer needs explicit device?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/4/2014 3:51 PM, ael wrote: > If just -o loop rather than -o loop=/dev/loop[1..n] is used, the > problem seems to vanish, at least with the latest kernels. > > Thus this becomes a bug in the mount man page? Hence reasssigning > back Ahh... strang

Bug#737701: mount: When I execute 'mount -o remount,acl /' . This command dont work.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 737701 + moreinfo thanks I'm afraid you will have to provide more information than "don't work". What *does* it say? What filesystem are you using? Does dmesg | tail show any relevant errors? On 2/5/2014 12:07 AM, Cristian Vazquez wrote: > Pa

Bug#732117: loop no longer needs explicit device?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/5/2014 3:53 AM, ael wrote: > Remove explict device /dev/loop.. from the example. Slightly > modify following text. > > I haven't searched the kernel archives (if that is where to look) > to see when this mandatory automatic handling of the loop d

Bug#737701: mount: When I execute 'mount -o remount,acl /' . This command dont work.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 737701 ext4 silently ignores acl mount option tags 737701 - moreinfo reassign 737701 linux thanks It looks like a kernel bug. Also in the future, it is important that you reply to the bug, rather than sending ( only ) a private reply. On 2/5

Bug#737247: gparted resizes partition to smaller than the filesystem

On 2/5/2014 12:47 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > Further, by undoing the following commit, the resize/move > operation proceeded past the failed e2fschk operation. :-) > > Shrink file systems to exact size (#701075) > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=3461413d283f1bac77e541b1054e775ec10

Bug#737247: gparted resizes partition to smaller than the filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/5/2014 1:14 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > I believe that -1 was masking the real error, which is in the > partition resize code, since the new size of the partition is not > an even multiple of 4k. The end sector also is not aligned to

Bug#737247: gparted resizes partition to smaller than the filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well that explains the alignment issue and is probably fine then. I am attaching a patch to the upstream bug report to fix the incorrect rounding. If it looks good to you Curtis, I'll apply it to the debian package and get it uploaded tonight and syn

Bug#737658: Time to drop the eject package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/5/2014 1:02 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > It would need that util-linux provides an eject-udeb package to > avoid breakage in Debian Installer. How about just putting it in the util-linux-udeb and drop the eject-udeb dependency from d-i? -

Bug#737658: Time to drop the eject package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/7/2014 1:31 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Certainly the best to do, yes..;-) Ok, I've added it to the util-linux-udeb and sent the new package to the current maintainer to upload, after which point I'll be the maintainer. Once that is done I su

Bug#737658: Time to drop the eject package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/7/2014 4:09 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Did you also include the bits from ejec-udeb.templates (D-I menu > entry) and it's translations? Ahh, no... good catch. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using Gn

Bug#329858: fdisk -l on files vs. disks could show more?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 tags 329858 + moreinfo thanks I am not able to reproduce this these days, are you? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJS9ZdQAAoJEI5FoCIzSK

Bug#588183: Wrong shlibs information

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 tags 588183 + moreinfo thanks I'm a bit unclear as to what you are saying is wrong with the package. If this is still an issue today, could you elaborate? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Th

Bug#737658: Time to drop the eject package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/08/2014 01:31 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > What is the VCS URL for util-linux? Is that really > git://git.debian.org/~lamont/util-linux.git as pointed by > debian/control (therefore Lamont Jones home on Debian servers) or > something more

Bug#669169: /bin/mount: mount -t nfs -va incorrectly reports "nothing was mounted"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 retitle 669169 mount -va incorrectly reports nothing was mounted thanks It isn't specific to nfs either; I reproduced it with ntfs. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.

Bug#737658: Time to drop the eject package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/08/2014 12:30 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > OK. So where is the new git repo, then? Nowhere. I'm not sure if I even have access to set one up since I'm only a dm, not a dd. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) C

Bug#738269: util-linux seriously outdated

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 reassign 738269 src:util-linux severity 738269 wishlist merge 678446 738269 thanks I have prepared a new release and will be taking over maintainership of the package once Lamont reviews and uploads it, which he hopes to do in the next day or so.

Bug#213552: closed by Phillip Susi (mount does not report underlying error - unrecognized mount option "xyz" for -t ext2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/08/2014 05:40 PM, Daniel B. wrote: >> ... mount tells you to check dmesg for more detailed error >> messages. > > No, it does not: From my report, here's what mount says: > > # mount -t ext2 /dev/cdrw /mnt mount: block device /dev/cdrw is

Bug#732117: loop no longer needs explicit device?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/05/2014 05:14 PM, ael wrote: > The exact behaviour has changed with different kernels. I am > running on a (locally compiled) 3.14.0-rc1 just now - and with a > fully updated testing environment. > > On this kernel -o loop=/dev/loop0 just give

Bug#517482: closed by Phillip Susi (junk on command line ignored)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/09/2014 09:02 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: > $ date a b c date: extra operand ‘b’ Try 'date --help' for more > information. I have no idea why you posted this... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuP

Bug#517482: closed by Phillip Susi (junk on command line ignored)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/09/2014 10:45 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I am saying some programs care about parameters more than others, > and I wish more would. The issue is that the remount option makes the parameter meaningless. It is accepted, but ignored. -BEGIN

Bug#199464: /usr/bin/script: switch for input from a terminal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 tags 199464 + fixed-upstream thanks This has been fixed in upstream git master, and is expected to be released in v2.25. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.ne

Bug#515744: script usage is wrong

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 515744 + fixed-upstream pending thanks On 2/10/2014 4:22 AM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Indeed, the -r opt reported in the cmd-line help is not valid. I > see no more other incosistencies. At the same time SYNOPSIS in the > man page needs fi

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Say Colin, it has been over a year so I thought I would ping on this. Is this really the only issue that is still preventing the parted3 transition? If so I think it may be time go go ahead and make the move rather than continue to block on this, whi

Bug#309163: util-linux: [fdisk] on x86_64 does not recognize BSD Disklabels made on alpha

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/10/2014 3:38 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > When I migrated from my alpha to my previous x86_64 machine I saw > this. I haven't tried since. I still have the hard disk of the > alpha, so I could check this. However, this would require some hard >

Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/10/2014 4:36 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > Phillip, you've asked me about this a number of times. I think the > work involved is fairly clear, although I don't seem to have > managed to make time for it personally. Perhaps, rather than > continuing

Bug#731749: util-linux: blockdev --setrw doesn't inside a VM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 731749 + moreinfo thanks Can you provide the following additional information: 1) strace of blockdev 2) strace of mount 3) dmsetup info of the dm device in question -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using G

Bug#731749: util-linux: blockdev --setrw doesn't inside a VM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2013 5:53 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > Hi Phillip, > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 09:37:47AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: >> Can you provide the following additional information: >> >> 1) strace of blockdev 2

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/13/2013 05:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto > his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard > disk partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/14/2013 02:26 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > The ST, maybe (except for the only-in-museums part), but the TT > and Falcon run Debian GNU/Linux just finely. > > Linux ara5.mirbsd.org 3.11-2-m68k #1 Debian 3.11.7-1 (2013-11-09) > m68k GNU/Linux >

Bug#732117: mount: loop mounting fails with LOOP_SET_FD failed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/14/2013 05:52 AM, ael wrote: > # losetup -f /dev/loop0 > > # export f=1; mount -v -o loop=/dev/loop0 > debian-testing-source-DVD-${f}old.iso /loopmnt1 mount: enabling > autoclear loopdev flag mount: going to use the loop device > /dev/loop0 m

Bug#732117: mount under strace -f

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 reassign 732117 linux thanks > Looks as if readlink is being called with a negative buffer size?? No, it's being called with a 4096 byte buffer size. The problem seems to be here: mount("/dev/loop0", "/loopmnt1", "iso9660", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1

Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is working? On 12/13/2013 5:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto > his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into t

Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 6:32 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote: > John, > > as long as libparted (or some other PC side kernel magic > automagically invoked by libparted - dm??) does take care of > byte-swapping IDE data on the fly, go for it. I had a quick glance > at

Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2013 2:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'm pretty sure that Philipp was talking about tests which are run > during build time to check the code, hence the name "make check". Yes. You should start with the current git head preferab

Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/16/2013 04:19 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: > >> But, of course, you could apply the patch to gparted, rebuild >> it, then create a partition table on a hard disk and hook it up >> to your ATARI and see if it's

Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2013 2:17 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I thought so too, but it turns out that the Atari IDE interface is > literally wired “the wrong way”, so you do need to bswap the entire > disc – not just partition table or filesystem metadata – but also

Bug#308035: Bug #308035 - [cfdisk] Does not reload partition table

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am unable to reproduce this, are you still seeing it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScR0xAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75zP4IANBfVC5X2IHHnia+fhHBks48 e

Bug#327113: Bug # #327113: setterm -powersave powerdown just blanks the screen

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 327113 linux thanks This is handled by the kernel driver, not setterm. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScSROAAoJEJrBOlT6nu753IcH/j

Bug#348764: Bug #348764: mount fail with normal user since last update (testing)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't reproduce this and the way it was originally reported does not make sense. You said that the error given was no medium found, but that strace showed it printing a message that only root can mount that. Which is it? If you still get an error

Bug#401472: util-linux: fdisk fails with error 16 and doesn't change the partition table

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The error message is to be expected if the disk is in use. A reboot should make the changes take effect though. Can you run fdisk again after writing the changes and see if the table is correct? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (

Bug#457308: iso9660: missing files and corrupt filenames with Rock Ridge extensions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 457308 linux thanks This is a problem with the kernel driver, not mount. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScS1WAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75f78I

Bug#508617: mount fails at boot when UUID's in /etc/fstab do not yet exist

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 508617 + moreinfo thanks I can't reproduce this by intentionally added an fstab entry with an non existing uuid and noauto option and running mount -a. Are you still seeing this? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Co

Bug#577597: system with UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS mounts FAT USB disk with wrong file time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 577597 + moreinfo I am not able to reproduce this, are you still seeing it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScWH3AAoJEJrBOlT6nu75C9cH

Bug#581607: /sbin/fdisk: fdisk does not see the partitions of 2.0 tera

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 581607 + moreinfo thanks I'm afraid your description here is too vague to be understood. Please try to describe in detail what you did and what happened. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Th

Bug#581674: mount: Mounting using UUID a 2.0 TB is not working, only at install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 581674 + moreinfo thanks I'm afraid your description here is too vague to be understood. Please try to describe in detail what you did and what happened. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Th

Bug#589677: won't mount floppy. Incorrectly says disk is write-protected

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 589677 + moreinfo thanks Did you have the write protect tab set on the floppy? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScWi1AAoJEJrBOlT6nu75Y+

Bug#604436: mount not working at boot !!!!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 604436 + moreinfo thanks I'm afraid your description here is too vague to be understood. Please try to describe in detail what you did and what happened. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Th

Bug#590142: /sbin/blkid: PENTAX not seen as UUID into blkid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 590142 + moreinfo thanks Can you provide the output of dd if=/dev/sdf1 count=1 | xxd? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScWvQAAoJEJrBOl

Bug#625843: base: fsck fails after upgrade; race condition with udev?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 625843 udev thanks Not a bug in fsck. It seems like it's the init scripts not waiting for udev to settle. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcB

Bug#710111: mount: cannot mount freshly looped filesystem image

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 710111 + moreinfo thanks What does dmesg | tail show after the mount fails? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScXNlAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75CDIH

Bug#199464: /usr/bin/script: switch for input from a terminal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems the problem is that the master process exits immediately when it reaches eof, rather than waiting for the children to exit. I've posted to the upstream mailing list about it asking how to forward the eof to the pty. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Bug#734555: gparted: Not built with online partition resize support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/8/2014 1:02 AM, Samuel Bronson wrote: > Package: gparted Version: 0.17.0-3 Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Recently, support was added to gparted to resize partitions > online: . > Unf

Bug#691151: CC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/10/2014 12:46 AM, David Mohr wrote: > [I reopened the bug, but I didn't realize I had to explicitly cc to > have my reasoning be accessible, sorry] > > Even if the mounts are equivalent at the kernel level, there > certainly is information lost c

Bug#691151: CC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/10/2014 9:34 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: >> So how do I figure out that /mnt refers to '/tmp' inside the >> device /dev/mapper/vghs-home in wheezy? > > Hrm... that's a good question. I'll ask upstream. It s

Bug#732068: Can't format external USB partition / device

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 4:56 PM, Fabián Rodríguez wrote: > > This bug report mentions a possible workaround + patch in Ubuntu: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1046665 Say what? It doesn't seem to say anything of the sort. -

Bug#354076: fdisk: incorrect/inconsistant display of partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is actually the sun label that is showing the end with a +1 error, the dos one is correct. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSco9HAAoJEJrB

Bug#371077: mount: can't read superblock

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 371077 + moreinfo thanks If you are still able to reproduce this, please capture an strace log of mount failing. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEc

Bug#375987: mount: bogus extra tmpfs mounted

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 375987 + moreinfo thanks I am unable to reproduce this, are you still able to? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScpMWAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75w

Bug#379172: "mount /path" mounts-bind rather than mounting from device

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 379172 + moreinfo thanks I am unable to reproduce this any more, are you? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScpRmAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75yQQH/3w

Bug#401841: mount: -o remount,commit=value does strange things

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 401841 + moreinfo thanks I am not able to reproduce this these days, are you still seeing this? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScpe5

Bug#403124: rev --bytes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 403124 fgetws chokes on input chars > 0x80 in C locale reassign 403124 libc6 thanks Looks like this is a bug in libc since it is the fgetws call that is trying and failing to convert the input chars. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Bug#410131: libc6: running "mount / -o remount" gives glibc double-free

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 410131 + moreinfo thanks I am not able to reproduce this these days, are you still able to? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScpzGAAoJE

Bug#411630: mount: interrogation mark as inode descriptor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 411630 + moreinfo thanks It looks like this doesn't have anything to do with mount, but if you are still able to reproduce this, please run stat java. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thund

Bug#431827: mount hangs as normal user when fstype is auto depending on blkid.tab data

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 431827 + moreinfo thanks This report is extremely old; if you are still able to reproduce this, could you get an updated strace log? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www

Bug#448919: LABEL=music in /etc/fstab doesn't work for /dev/sdd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 448919 + moreinfo thanks I think this was fixed years ago, are you still seeing this problem? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJScqM5AAo

Bug#516095: fails to mount hfsplus by uuid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 516095 + moreinfo thanks Please post your /etc/fstab, and the exact command you are running. Also try running mount with the -i switch. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http:/

Bug#609415: Critical issue with mount not working at boot (with last new mount version!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 609415 + moreinfo thanks Are you still seeing this on wheezy? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSc/EKAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75oB0H/ifw1nNOYH39FCp

Bug#437483: util-linux: [fdisk] sgi disklabel - cant create second partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 437483 + moreinfo thanks Are you still seeing this on wheezy? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSc/khAAoJEJrBOlT6nu7546UIAN0AOb7CPLSqHot

Bug#666163: util-linux: /etc/fstab.d does not work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure why this directory was ever added to the package; the feature to use it only existed upstream briefly between releases *after* 2.20.1. It should be removed from the next upload. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW3

Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reopen 274229 thanks On 11/1/2013 3:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Phillip, given the above background, would you be willing to modify > the libuuid package to use /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin instead > of /bin/sh for the shell for the libuuid user?

Bug#565124: closed by Phillip Susi (util-linux: blkid man pages description lacks mention of UUIDs)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 reopen 565124 thanks On 11/02/2013 01:25 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, the problem was that > > man -k UUID > > wouldn't suggest the blkid program. Ahh, I see, thanks. That should be simple enough. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Bug#635002: impossible to 'mount -at cifs' user mountable cifs shares without being root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 635002 + fixed-upstream thanks Reported and fixed upstream. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSd7ArAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75Hm0H/j85uCf+M3/mKjyns

Bug#717744: blkid ignores /dev/sdd8 (using gpt)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/09/2013 02:34 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Using Wheezy /dev/sdd8 is shown, but /dev/sdd9 is missing. I > haven't tried additional partition yet. You didn't show an sdd9 before, can you post an updated parted print? Also can you try running blk

Bug#729336: util-linux: command cal does not show monday as first day, command ncal does, other program like orage does too

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/11/2013 05:53 PM, Martin Mezei wrote: > Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-5.3 Severity: normal Tags: > l10n > > Dear Maintainer, > > 1. set locale to en_GB.UTF-8 for example, or make export LC_TIME to > en_GB 2. make sure locale set is righ

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