Comment 5 for bug 163962

I get this same error. I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10. I open Partition Editor from the menu and look at /dev/sda. The first item listed there is /dev/sda3. It's a 214GB NTFS primary partition. There's a yellow warning triangle next to it, and its Windows label (CURRENT) isn't shown. When I double-click on it, or when I right-click on it and choose Information, I get an indication that it is not mounted and a statement, "Unable to read the contents of this filesystem!" It is a working partition that I was just using in WinXP before rebooting into Intrepid on this dual-boot AMD system. I did a normal shutdown and reboot when leaving WinXP; no system reset or anything like that.

In Nautilus, when I click Computer and then double-clicke on CURRENT, I get this:

  Cannot mount volume.
  You are not privileged to mount the volume 'CURRENT'.

After a few seconds, I get a dialog that says this:

  Opening "CURRENT".
  You can stop this operation by clicking cancel.

A few seconds later, I get this dialog on a different desktop:

  Unable to mount location
  DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

Double-clicking opens the other NTFS partitions on this system without difficulty.

I can't get at this partition with these steps:

  sudo -i
  nautilus
  [browse to /media]

That doesn't work because CURRENT is not shown as one of the partitions there, and when I click on Computer at that location, I get this error:

  Could not display "computer:".
  Nautilus cannot handle "computer" locations.

I have added a line to my /etc/fstab that attempts to mount the partition, but it's not working. The fstab is:

**************************************************

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=997ccdbf-265c-4024-a314-b78b71f2d122 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/ !! UNKNOW DEVICE !! :
UUID=903fa40e-f48a-45b2-a6b4-8fb5b24f74df none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc8 /media/CURRBACKUP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdc7 /media/COLDSTORAGE ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/BACKROOM ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/CURRENT ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

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Not sure what that "UNKNOW DEVICE" line is all about.

df -k gives me this:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb5 30232016 5225188 23778180 19% /
tmpfs 2543908 0 2543908 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 2543908 132 2543776 1% /var/run
varlock 2543908 0 2543908 0% /var/lock
udev 2543908 2836 2541072 1% /dev
tmpfs 2543908 232 2543676 1% /dev/shm
lrm 2543908 2380 2541528 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sdc8 244983184 73536 244909648 1% /media/CURRBACKUP
/dev/sdc7 262140604 144156 261996448 1% /media/COLDSTORAGE
/dev/sda5 157284312 72347492 84936820 46% /media/BACKROOM

Thanks for guidance/insights/fixes.

Cheers!

Ray