/bin/ntfs-3g crashes and directly loses mount of drive

[Timmie]

* The ntfs-3g crashes regularly, making it unable to access the drive.
* Only reboot helps
* What can I do to get it more stable?
* Seems to be a problem of 12.10!!
* How can I repair it without reboot?

[Jean-Pierre (jean-pierre-andre)]

> * The ntfs-3g crashes regularly, making it unable to access the drive.

And ntfs-3g cannot do anything about it, as it is caused by a bug in fuse.

> * Only reboot helps
> * What can I do to get it more stable?
> * Seems to be a problem of 12.10!!
> * How can I repair it without reboot?

Upgrade or downgrade or patch fuse in order to avoid using original fuse 2.9.0 and fuse 2.9.1

[Timmie (timmie)]

>Upgrade or downgrade or patch fuse in order to avoid using original fuse 2.9.0 and fuse 2.9.1
Please help:
how do I do that?

Could this be related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1156216
(test of upstream kernel)?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I'm experincing this in precise 12.04. I'll be rsyncing to the mounted ntfs-3g external drive, and it will umount in mid trasfer. System load is 3.00 at this time, and I can even ls at the command prompt.

Only after reboot does my system fully recover from this crash/unmount.