Bug 461786

Summary:	system cannot mount any additional file systems
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Ulrich Deiters <ulrich.deiters>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mmarek
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Description Ulrich Deiters 2008-12-22 23:34:10 UTC

If I connect an USB stick, USD disk drive, Firewire disk, ... the automounter fails. Note: A new device file is created, linked with a proper name, but not mounted.

After attempting to mount manually, the mount command hangs forever.

Inspection of the process table shows that there are two hanging mount processes:

mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

If one of them is killed, the system works OK. But how can I get rid of the superfluous mount?

The problem does not appear on all my computers. Perhaps it is caused by a leftover from a previous Linux installation?

Comment 1 Cyril Hrubis 2009-01-19 18:14:13 UTC

Which desktop do you have (KDE3, KDE4, Gnome,...)?

Comment 2 Ulrich Deiters 2009-01-20 20:24:15 UTC

The machine runs kde4init, but the window manager is /opt/kde3/bin/kdm.

The problem (partially) disappeared when I disabled the starting of jexec in /etc/rc*.d . Now can mount everything, even cryptofiles via the /dev/loop* devices. But here I cannot unmount them again:

ukd@iridium:~> mount $HOME/ext
Passwort:
ukd@iridium:~> umount $HOME/ext
umount: /home/ukd/ext mount und fstab stimmen nicht überein
ukd@iridium:~>

I have to force an umount as a superuser:

iridium:/home/ukd # umount /home/ukd/ext
ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Kein passendes Gerät bzw. keine passende Adresse gefunden

In spite of the error message "no matching device or address found", the umount succeeds.

Here is the appropriate line of my /etc/fstab:

/media/usbdisk/.c  /home/ukd/ext  ext3  \
loop=/dev/loop0,encryption=twofish256,noatime,user,acl,user_xattr,noauto,rw 0 0

Of course, I am not sure that this problem is related to the former one.

Comment 3 Michal Vyskocil 2009-02-02 13:22:07 UTC

Isn't it same as bug#463582?

Comment 4 Michal Marek 2009-02-04 10:48:16 UTC

it is

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463582 ***