Windows partition not automounted/autodetected in Dapper

[Dane Mutters]

I'm using the Dapper flight 3 CD. My NTFS and VFAT partitions are not mounted or detected automatically. For the average user, it's rather inconvenient to have to go mess around with the fstab in order to find their stuff.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is a bug, because it's meant to be autodetected but isn't due to some problem in partman. I'm deliberately leaving this at severity normal.

DaneM, could you attach /var/log/installer/partman to this bug, please? I'm fairly sure I know the cause of this problem, but I'd like to confirm that it's the same thing.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

If you could please test with last iso build. Because mounting vfat/ntfs have been improved since flight 3

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Those improvements aren't relevant to this bug.

[Dane Mutters (dmutters)]

Here's the requested log file:

/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/01unsupported: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hda /dev/hda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 2
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hdc /dev/hdc
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hdc
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hdc as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 3
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hde /dev/hde
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hde
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hde as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 4
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=hdf /dev/hdf
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=hdf
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=hdf as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 5
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/31md-devices: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: IN: DUMP =dev=hda
parted_server: Read command: DUMP
parted_server: command_dump()
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 6
parted_server: Opening infifo
Device: yes
Model: WDC WD2500JB-22GVC0
Path: /dev/hda
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 488397168
Sectors/track: 63
Heads: 255
Cylinders: 30401
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: # id length type fs path name
(0,0,0) (0,0,62) -1 0-32255 32256 primary label /dev/hda-1
(0,1,0) (121,254,62) 1 32256-1003484159 1003451904 primary reiserfs /dev/hda1
(122,0,0) (15683,254,62) 2 1003484160-129005291519 128001807360 primary reiserfs /dev/hda2
(15684,0,0) (30333,254,62) 3 129005291520-249505643519 120500352000 primary reiserfs /dev/hda3
(30334,0,0) (30400,254,62) 4 249505643520-250056737279 551093760 primary linux-swap /dev/hda4
(30401,0,0) (30401,80,62) -1 250056737280-250059350...

[Jan Dante Meulemeester (jandante)]

My partition is autodetected but standard it's only allowed for root to access it which is great I think.
BUT
then you either don't show the icon to normal users on their desktop OR
you give them the oppurtunity to enter the root pass through gksudo to access it.

you don't put a candy in a kids face when he's unable to have it and if you do they get really annoying ;)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Jan: that's a different bug, and already fixed in Dapper post-Flight-CD-6. Please don't introduce permissions issues into this bug, which is about a different problem.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Right, thanks for that log. I've confirmed that this is the same root cause as bug 27820, namely that the autopartitioning process clears out all state which it thinks is due to manual partitioning, which happens to include the automatically preset mount points.