[Bug 641306] Re: failed to install maverick-desktop-amd64: Mount denied because volume is already exclusively opened

[Colin Watson]

This is happening because the new version of ntfs-3g checks whether the
device is already mounted by looking in /etc/mtab, which doesn't exist,
so it gets confused.  We could adjust ntfs-3g, but to be honest I think
the safest and simplest fix is to make /etc/mtab a symlink to
/proc/mounts in our initramfs.

** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Maverick)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Maverick)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Maverick)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.10

** Changed in: wubi
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: wubi
   Importance: Undecided => High

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failed to install maverick-desktop-amd64: Mount denied because volume is already exclusively opened
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641306
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