Debian bug report logs - #1363 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1363: mount error messages do not match problem Reply-To: Michael E. Deisher , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Michael E. Deisher Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 23:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: root disk X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 23:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:49:40 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0su62I-000EJaC; Sat, 16 Sep 95 15:48 PDT Received: from asuvax.EAS.ASU.EDU by pixar.com with SMTP id AA17899 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:48:23 -0700 Received: from ganges (enws428.EAS.ASU.EDU) by asuvax.eas.asu.edu with SMTP id AA05206 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for debian-bugs@pixar.com); Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:43:21 -0700 Received: by ganges (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11020; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:48:28 -0700 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:48:28 -0700 Message-Id: <9509162248.AA11020@ganges> From: Michael E. Deisher To: bruce@beagle.pixar.com, imurdock@debian.org Cc: debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: <199509162036.NAA05917@beagle.pixar.com> (bruce@beagle.pixar.com) Package: root disk Version: 0.93R6 pre-release-1 I've noticed this wierdness with mount for quite some time and am finally able to reproduce it. The problem is that in certain situations mount prints erroneous or misleading error messages. When installing the new base system, I accidently typed in "/dev/hdb" instead of "/dev/hdb1" when the installation program asked me which partition I wanted to format. This itself is a bug! The installation program should have caught this. Anyway, when I later tried to mount /dev/hdb1 on / (using option 4 of the installation program), mount gave the error message: mount: /dev/hdb1 mount point does not exist Of course, the mount point really does exist. The mount point is in the ramdisk. The problem was a screwed up filesystem. So, "mount" needs to be fixed so that it prints appropriate error messages. Also the install program needs to be fixed so that it won't let the user make silly mistakes like this. --Mike ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Michael E. Deisher Subject: Bug#1363: Acknowledgement (was: mount error messages do not match problem) In-Reply-To: <9509162248.AA11020@ganges> References: <9509162248.AA11020@ganges> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1363" or "Re: Bug#1363" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From debian.org!imurdock Wed Oct 11 15:54:34 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3A2k-000H0FC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 15:54 PDT Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11921 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:54:11 -0700 Received: by imagine.imaginit.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:58 EST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:58 EST From: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com reassign 1363 mount ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov