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

[OzzyFrank]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1059471 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059471

Pascal - the graphics card info is as follows:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G84
[GeForce 8600 GT] [10de:0402] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Forgive my lack of expertise in these matters, but I have no idea about
blacklisting video cards, like why I would even need to do that
(actually, to a novice like me it kind of sounds dangerous, hehe).
Looking at the blacklist examples in /boot/grub/gfxblacklist.txt, I
can't even see what part of the above info I'd have to put in. I assume
this has something to do with why my boot utterly fails when it can't
mount /media/Windows\040XP, rather than give me the option to skip and
just resume boot. Once again, forgive my ignorance about why a mount
failure and video card issue could be related.

Anyway, all I can say is that while playing with the values in fstab and
using mount -a to see if any changes work, everything I do still ends
with the error: [mntent]: line 1 in /etc/fstab is bad

Whether I use spaces, \040 instead of spaces, and quotes around the path
of both of those or not, there is still no way for me to mount those
with spaces. I know the short answer is just to change the mount points
to those with no spaces, but the reason I have not done that is that I
have so many links and bookmarks etc pointing to "Windows XP" - not to
mention in a VirtualBox WinXP appliance where so much is tied to the
physical WinXP partition - it would cause me too much hassle to change
the mount point to "Windows_XP" (Ubuntu's automount recognises the
partition's label of "Windows XP", and while I have to manually mount
that, all my links/bookmarks then work, and I just have to remember to
do that before loading my WinXP virtual machine, otherwise it too spits
the dummy and fails to load).

PS: my mountall version is now 2.42ubuntu0.4, but still no luck.

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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:
  Confirmed

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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