Bugzilla – Bug 691332
USB HDD cannot be automatically mounted after kernel update to 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop x86_64
Last modified: 2011-06-12 16:48:30 UTC
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.8.131 Version/11.10 The device notifier reports an error when trying to mount my external ntfs drive: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Requested filesystem type is neither well-known nor in /proc/filesystems nor in /etc/filesystems The drive worked fine before the update to kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop x86_64. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert a NTFS USB drive 2. 3. Actual Results: Device is not mounted. Expected Results: Device should be mounted and accessible through dolphin or other file browsers. Adding "ntfs" to /etc/filesystems seems to fix the problem. This bug is also reported in KDE's bugzilla: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270689
See also - on the forums: * (de) Thread: kein Zugriff mehr auf NTFS-Partition (30-Apr-2011) http://forums.opensuse.org/deutsch-german/hilfe-und-helfen/anwendungen/458977-kein-zugriff-mehr-auf-ntfs-partition.html * (de) Thread: USB-Festplatte nach Update nicht zu öffnen (30-Apr-2011) http://forums.opensuse.org/deutsch-german/hilfe-und-helfen/installation-administration/458993-usb-festplatte-nach-update-nicht-zu-oeffnen.html * (en) Thread: Mounting ntfs formatted usb external hdd in Tumbleweed (01-May-201) http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/tumbleweed/459088-mounting-ntfs-formatted-usb-external-hdd-tumbleweed.html - on archlinux.org > bugs: * FS#23701 - [udisks] udisks 1.0.3 fails to mount ntfs drive with kde (11 April 2011) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23701
I've seen the problem on my laptop after the update to the kernel contained in the package kernel-desktop-2.6.37.6-0.5.1.x86_64 The workaround of adding ntfs to /etc/filesystems worked, but the bug needs to be fixed. Not being able to mount NTFS drives (which most external USB are these days) is a big issue, and command-line workarounds are no good for non-technical users.
I see the same, it's a regression caused by an official kernel update and users should not be expected to edit /etc/filesystems.
/etc/filessystems comes from the util-linux package, not the kernel package, reassigning.
See also: Bug 691280 - USB hard disk formatted as NTFS is being mounted as FAT by KDE (and of course fails) in Tumbleweed (Probably just the same issue in a bug report against openSUSE Tumbleweed instead of openSUSE 11.4)
*** Bug 691280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hm, I can not reproduce. However, I'm quite convinced that this relates to the recent update of udisks. Kay, there is missing comma after "exfat" and before "ntfs" in the patch that fixes bnc#653900. Assigning to you.
Downgrading udisks fixes the problem for me. Could somebody take down that udisks update please, so it is not offered again and again?
merge duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691077 ***
*** Bug 699463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***