failed to install maverick-desktop-amd64: Mount denied because volume is already exclusively opened
Bug #641306 reported by
Jean-Baptiste Lallement
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wubi |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Second stage of wubi installation failed and I'm dropped to busybox with an error:
"(initramfs) Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened"
Host system is WinXP
Latest maverick image from 2010-09-17
10.04.1 installs fine on the same test system.
Related branches
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-10.10 |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
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This is happening because the new version of ntfs-3g checks whether the device is already mounted by looking in /etc/mtab, which doesn't exist, so it gets confused. We could adjust ntfs-3g, but to be honest I think the safest and simplest fix is to make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts in our initramfs.