No Way to correct mount options

[Parag Warudkar]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have a internal sata disk formatted with one single ext3 partition.

I click on the volume in Nautilus->Places and it mounts fine. However after mounting I try to incorrectly change the mount options or path - there is no way to correct it once the Properties->Volume window is closed.

With the wrong mount options, attempting to mount shows error as expected (although the error message isn't exactly helpful, but that's another bug) - but the Properties menu option is no longer accessible (at least I did not find it anywhere) and thus the volume can never be mounted again.

The Properties window should validate the options and force the user to correct the wrong ones or go back to the previous ones before closing / applying them. That way this situation will not arise.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-5-generic x86_64

[Anish Bhatt (anish7)]

what mount options are you changing ? all mount options that you specify should be stored in /etc/fstab, you can change your options from there. please see if that solves your problem.

[Parag Warudkar (parag-warudkar)]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM, anish <email address hidden> wrote:
> what mount options are you changing ? all mount options that you specify
> should be stored in /etc/fstab, you can change your options from there.
> please see if that solves your problem.

Well the options are editable using gconf-editor tool
(/system/storage) - they aren't part of fstab and I was able to find
the right keys to unset and it can mount now.

BUT this bug report is about the user interface which allows wrong
options to be set and then doesn't allow to easily change them.

Thanks
Parag

[Parag Warudkar (parag-warudkar)]

Well the options are editable using gconf-editor tool
(/system/storage) - they aren't part of fstab and I was able to find
the right keys to unset and it can mount now.

BUT this bug report is about the user interface which allows wrong
options to be set and then doesn't allow to easily change them.

Thanks
Parag

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

This sounds similar to bug #107668 Is this the same problem?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

It seems to be a duplicate of bug #231218, because it refers to invalid mount options, not invalid mount point as in bug #107668.