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Bug 297233 - sys-apps/util-linux does not search for mount helpers in /usr/bin ($PATH)
Summary: sys-apps/util-linux does not search for mount helpers in /usr/bin ($PATH)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
URL: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.u...
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: 307853 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-12-16 23:17 UTC by Bruce Schultz
Modified: 2010-03-23 20:17 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Bruce Schultz 2009-12-16 23:17:54 UTC 
mount -t fuse.ntfs fails because mount can't find the helper program mount.fuse.ntfs which is in /usr/bin. According to the mount man page, it should be in /sbin.

# mount -t fuse.ntfs /dev/sdd2 /mnt/tmp
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd2,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Creating the symlink in /sbin fixes the error above
# ln -s /usr/bin/ntfsmount /sbin/mount.fuse.ntfs

For some reason, the ntfsprogs-2.0.0-r1.ebuild is moving the mount helper program links from /sbin to /usr/bin. That seems to be the causes of the problem.

src_install() {
  ...
  mv "${D}"/sbin/mount.{fuse.ntfs,ntfs-fuse} "${D}"/usr/bin/ || die
 ...
}


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2010-03-05 21:50:21 UTC 
upstream has accepted my patch for --enable-fs-paths configure options and will be in the next release.  it's easier if we just wait for that.  i'm lazy.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2010-03-23 20:17:13 UTC 
*** Bug 307853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***