Debian bug report logs - #1363 mount error messages do not match problem Package: mount ; Reported by: Michael E. Deisher ; 45 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug reassigned from package `root disk' to `mount'. Request was from imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) to debian-bugs-request@pixar.com . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From enws428.EAS.ASU.EDU!deisher Sat Sep 16 15:48:39 1995 Return-Path: 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) Subject: mount error messages do not match problem 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Michael E. Deisher : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1363 ; Package root disk . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov