After upgrading from gvfs-1.4.2 to 1.4.3 I noticed that now nautilus is not able to mount ntfs partition anymore. When I plug in my ntfs usb removable disk or simply click its icon in nautilus's side pane I got error message: Error mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'. It looks like nautilus now is looking for the kernel-level ntfs support rather than ntfs-3g. Manual mount such as ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 ... or gnome-mount -d /dev/sdb1 is working well. gconftool-2 indicates fstype_override = ntfs-3g mount_options = [umask=222] Simply speaking, I didn't change anything, just updating gvfs-1.4.2 to 1.4.3 causes this problem. If I downgrade gvfs back to 1.4.2 then this problem disappears(actually after I downgrade to 1.4.2 I reproduced bug 296153 but as I said in that bug page after restarting hald everthing is working well). I re-compiled the kernel with ntfs support and this time nautilus is able to mount the disk automatically. It really looks like nautilus is trying to use something like mount -t ntfs instead of ntfs-3g for gvfs-1.4.3. Thanks. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p2 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv jpeg ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis webkit x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1712" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS gnome-base/gvfs-1.4.3 USE="avahi bash-completion bluetooth gdu gnome hal http udev -archive -cdda -doc -fuse -gnome-keyring -gphoto2 -samba" gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 USE="libnotify -debug -nautilus" sys-fs/ntfs3g-2010.3.6 USE="acl external-fuse hal -debug -suid" gnome-base/nautilus-2.28.4 USE="gnome -beagle -doc -test -tracker -xmp"
I modified the title because after some research I realized it is actually because I use "gdu"(by default) for gvfs-1.4.3, and it looks like for some reason I couldn't make gnome-disk-utility to mount ntfs partition using ntfs-3g. I now temporarily use a workaround by ln -s /bin/ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs I don't know if this bug report should be closed because I really have no idea if this is the way gdu should be. I checked ubuntu and found they have this link. A dpkg -S indicates that link belonging to ntfs-3g. Perhaps we should consider add such link? The kernel level ntfs support seems to be useless for many people who would like to use their removable disk. Anyway, if there is a configuration to tell gdu to use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs, please kindly tell me and ignore my report as invalid. Thanks.
I think this is a dupe of bug 304765 , but feel free to reopen if I am wrong *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 304765 ***
