Comment 10 for bug 35354

I just did an upgrade, and though I've now switched to experimenting with ntfs-3g, the experimental driver which will be merged into ntfs-progs, the problem is the same. What's interesting is, that once I restarted after the upgrade (which included a new kernel), the HAL demon failed to start. All the NTFS partitions showed up on the Deskop and in Places. But after trying sudo dpkg --configure -a and restarting to get HAL working, the next time hald did start and the NTFS partitions had disappeared from the Desktop and places. Places->Computer shows them, but display the above symptom:
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda8 is already mounted on /media/data2

mount failed
the partitions are indeed mounted and accessible, but Gnome/HALd doesn't know it.
It is being discussed here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009