[Bug 1059726] Re: Mounting drives that have '\040' in the name in fstab throws up an error during boot.

[OzzyFrank]

Hi. I can confirm pretty much the same thing, being that my Windows XP
partition could not be mounted on rebooting after the 12.10 upgrade, and
it totally halted the system (I was given no "Press S to skip" option -
the only keys that would do anything was Esc [toggle between showing
Plymouth and verbose mode] and Ctrl+Alt+Del [reboot]).

Nothing is wrong with that NTFS partition, but the mount point does
contain a space (/media/Windows XP), so it may be the "\040" issue. I
booted with another drive and edited fstab (I simply commented out the
whole line, as I had no idea if it was an issue with it mounting NTSF
volumes or what not), and the system started fine (and the NTFS
partition, being on the same drive as Ubuntu, was automatically mounted
anyway).

Once upon an upgrade, I had to actually edit fstab and replace the
spaces with "\040" in order to get affected volumes to be mounted again
- now it seems that's the very cause of this issue. While I obviously
got past this, this issue would surely stump those with less experience,
especially as many would have no idea how to boot with a Live CD or
other Ubuntu drive and successfully edit fstab (keeping in mind Ubuntu
won't automatically mount another Ubuntu/Linux system partition, so
you'd have to know how to do this manually, then edit fstab as root).

Also, it doesn't help that among the error messages it mentions nothing
of spaces in the mount point, but states:

"The volume may already be mounted, or another software may use it..."
"mountall: File system could not be mounted /media/Windows XP"

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Title:
  Mounting drives that have '\040' in the name in fstab throws up an
  error during boot.

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In 12.10 my drives that are mounted in /media/Storage\0401 and
  /media/Storage\0402 produce an error message during boot. However when
  prompted to skip mounting they do mount correctly upon login. This
  happens in Kubuntu, which displays an error message, and in Gnome
  remix, which does not. However, Gnome successfully boots after
  pressing 'S', to skip mounting, twice.

  Drives that are mounted in /media/Storage, /media/Storage1 and
  /media/Storage2 work without problems.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: plymouth 0.8.4-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct  1 17:19:08 2012
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo.plymouth
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64(20120926)
  MachineType: System manufacturer Rampage Formula
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-16-generic root=UUID=03fe6332-5278-4c93-8574-5b7e1175c407 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-16-generic root=UUID=03fe6332-5278-4c93-8574-5b7e1175c407 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-text/ubuntu-gnome-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 02/20/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 0803
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: Rampage Formula
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0803:bd02/20/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnRampageFormula:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnRampageFormula:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: Rampage Formula
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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