Public bug reported: Somehow, my Windows partition ended up being mounted in the wrong place with the wrong permissions. Presumely this is used for detecting the type of the partition:
$ mount | tail -1 /dev/sda1 on /tmp/disks-conf-sda1 type ntfs (rw) this was correctable by: $ sudo umount /dev/sda1 $ sudo pmount /media/xp $ mount | tail -1 /dev/sda1 on /media/xp type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,utf8,umask=000) restoring the expected status. ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: Somehow, my Windows partition ended up being mounted in the wrong place with the wrong permissions. Presumely this is used for detecting the type of the partition: - $ mount - /dev/sda1 on /tmp/disks-conf-sda1 type ntfs (rw) + $ mount | tail -1 + /dev/sda1 on /tmp/disks-conf-sda1 type ntfs (rw) this was correctable by: $ sudo umount /dev/sda1 $ sudo pmount /media/xp - $ mount - dev/sda1 on /media/xp type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,utf8,umask=000) + $ mount | tail -1 + /dev/sda1 on /media/xp type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,utf8,umask=000) restoring the expected status. -- disk ends up mounted on /tmp/disks-conf-sda1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/58521 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs