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Mounting Problems in Kubuntu Edgy after the Xserver is restarted

Bug #58552 reported by Alberto Milone
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Bug Description

Kubuntu Edgy works just fine after it boots and all my partitions are mounted.

However if I log out and press CTRL+ALT+Backspace and log in I notice that only my / and /home partition are mounted.

If I try to mount the partitions by clicking on their icons I get Konqueror complaining that "An unknown error occured".

Of course rebooting solves the problem.

The only solution I've found (without rebooting) is that of typing:
sudo mount -a

This leads me to think that there might be authorisation problems after the Xserver is restarted.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

i dont know where this belongs, but kubuntu-meta is a start.

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Juan Carlos Torres (jucato) wrote :

I confirm this behavior. One does not need to restart X for it to happen. Just by logging off and logging back in, partitions are unmounted.

However, this seems to only affect ext3, reiserfs or xfs partitions. vfat and ntfs partitions remain mounted.

Changed in kubuntu-meta:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

KDE 3.5.5 solved this problem, however if I restart the Xserver, log in and insert a DVD (data) an empty window shows up and I have to press the Refresh button in order to see its files.

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Reuben Kagan (reuben-kagan) wrote :

maybe the same as Bug 69273

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

It looks like the problem was solved by the latest updates of Kubuntu Edgy, at least as far as the Kubuntu 32bit is concerned.

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Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote :

Can anyone confirm this fix so we can close the bug?

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Lothar Braun (typecast) wrote :

I can confirm the fix. Works fine for me now.

Changed in kubuntu-meta:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Reuben Kagan (reuben-kagan) wrote :

Works for me in Kubuntu 6.10 AMD64

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Thanos Kyritsis (djart) wrote :

I think this bug is related to using devices by uuid inside the fstab and not to KDE or any of its updates.

I have 1 ntfs partition and 2 vfat partitions in my fstab. I had reverted them to the classic /dev/hdXY naming scheme inside the fstab so that I don't have to face this bug. I fully updated my Kubuntu and reverted them back to the uuids again when I saw your comments that this bug is fixed on its own. Actually, nothing changed. When I relogin only the 2 vfats stay mounted, not the ntfs one.

And then I noticed that the two lines for the vfats had the mount option uid=0, whereas the ntfs partition lacked this option. I added it to the ntfs line as well, and the problem seems to have been fixed now.

But I don't think this bug should be closed. I ain't seeing any difference than before and I have to play the "hacker"-role everytime and find which mount options are more friendly for any side-effects to not occur.

So, if you remove the uid=0 options or do anything else "magical" trick, no bug is fixed and the problem is still there. Whether you'd like to run a deeper research into it or not is your matter, but have in mind that an average newbie user will keep seeing his partitions vanishing after relogins.

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