[opensuse-factory] Beta 2 and external USB HD
I have an external USB HD attached. The HD is partitioned into a Linux and a Windows (NTFS) partition. When I switch on this HD, Beta2 does not recognise the Windows partition and comes up with an error message, "Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In [sic] some cases useful useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so". This problem has not occurred in 10.3 or earlier versions. I haven't tried doing the "dmesg | tail or so" thingie. But as I type this, I repeatedly keep getting on my screen the normal menu(s) which come up when a USB device is plugged in - which I then have to Cancel, but it keeps coming back. Nice. Any ideas why the Windows partition is not recognised, and how can this be recitifed? Ciao. PS Just had a look at dmesg | tail and found this: ntf8 is no longer supported use nls=utf8 Now, what has this got to do with me?! I just have a USB external HD and switch it on so why am I expected to "use nls=utf8" - somewhere, but I don't where. -- If you want to know what a man is like, take a look at how he treats his inferiors not his equals. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-05-07 at 16:42 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
I have an external USB HD attached. The HD is partitioned into a Linux and a Windows (NTFS) partition.
When I switch on this HD, Beta2 does not recognise the Windows partition and comes up with an error message, "Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In [sic] some cases useful useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so". This problem has not occurred in 10.3 or earlier versions. I haven't tried doing the "dmesg | tail or so" thingie. ... [mixing] ... PS Just had a look at dmesg | tail and found this:
ntf8 is no longer supported use nls=utf8
This is one bug, that you should report on bugzilla. I think the automounter routine is trying to mount with a no longer supported option.
But as I type this, I repeatedly keep getting on my screen the normal menu(s) which come up when a USB device is plugged in - which I then have to Cancel, but it keeps coming back. Nice.
And this is another bug that you should report on bugzilla. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIIX1mtTMYHG2NR9URAlmJAJ9lgYOYGbGfwi9fvhm1KCPGrf0E+gCeNPhn qcc/RAmPxi8IO+HlhXgcm8E= =i91N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-05-07 at 16:42 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
I have an external USB HD attached. The HD is partitioned into a Linux and a Windows (NTFS) partition.
When I switch on this HD, Beta2 does not recognise the Windows partition and comes up with an error message, "Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In [sic] some cases useful useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so". This problem has not occurred in 10.3 or earlier versions. I haven't tried doing the "dmesg | tail or so" thingie. ... [mixing] ... PS Just had a look at dmesg | tail and found this:
ntf8 is no longer supported use nls=utf8
This is one bug, that you should report on bugzilla. I think the automounter routine is trying to mount with a no longer supported option.
Sorry for the long delay in responding but I do like to check things out before 'complaining'. I just discovered that the same thing is occurring in 10.3 - same error message and I cannot access the ntfs-formatted partition even though it is "recognised" (as in, 'what do I want to do with it: open in new window, cancel, etc') when I startup the USB HD. I'll now check to see if I exited the partition in XP properly (yuck! I haven't even looked at XP for at least a month!); maybe this is what is causing the problem.
But as I type this, I repeatedly keep getting on my screen the normal menu(s) which come up when a USB device is plugged in - which I then have to Cancel, but it keeps coming back. Nice.
And this is another bug that you should report on bugzilla.
At least this is not happening under 10.3 at the moment; so maybe the hassle IS in 11.0 - dunno. Ciao. -- If you want to know what a man is like, take a look at how he treats his inferiors not his equals. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-05-07 at 16:42 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
I have an external USB HD attached. The HD is partitioned into a Linux and a Windows (NTFS) partition.
When I switch on this HD, Beta2 does not recognise the Windows partition and comes up with an error message, "Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In [sic] some cases useful useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so". This problem has not occurred in 10.3 or earlier versions. I haven't tried doing the "dmesg | tail or so" thingie. ... [mixing] ... PS Just had a look at dmesg | tail and found this:
ntf8 is no longer supported use nls=utf8
This is one bug, that you should report on bugzilla. I think the automounter routine is trying to mount with a no longer supported option.
Sorry for the long delay in responding but I do like to check things out before 'complaining'.
I just discovered that the same thing is occurring in 10.3 - same error message and I cannot access the ntfs-formatted partition even though it is "recognised" (as in, 'what do I want to do with it: open in new window, cancel, etc') when I startup the USB HD.
I'll now check to see if I exited the partition in XP properly (yuck! I haven't even looked at XP for at least a month!); maybe this is what is causing the problem.
But as I type this, I repeatedly keep getting on my screen the normal menu(s) which come up when a USB device is plugged in - which I then have to Cancel, but it keeps coming back. Nice.
And this is another bug that you should report on bugzilla.
At least this is not happening under 10.3 at the moment; so maybe the hassle IS in 11.0 - dunno.
Ciao.
I was wrong: 10.3 does not recognise the USB HD partition formatted in NTFS. It did until some recent upgrade- what that upgrade was I don't know. Kubuntu 8.04 LIVE recognises the NTFS partition, Windows XP of course recognises it, and Manrdiva 2008 LIVE recognises it but openSUSE 10.3 (now) does not recognise it (comes up with the error I mentioned earlier) and neither does 11.0 Beta 1 nor 2 (which had some 980+ upgrades done today). With 11.0 Beta due out tomorrow I'll see if the problem still shows up in that. (What I don't understand is why nobody else has mentioned this problem. So, is this suddenly only affecting me? Doubt it.) Ciao. -- Minds and parachutes only function properly when open. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-05-14 at 23:27 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
I was wrong: 10.3 does not recognise the USB HD partition formatted in NTFS. It did until some recent upgrade- what that upgrade was I don't know.
Kubuntu 8.04 LIVE recognises the NTFS partition, Windows XP of course recognises it, and Manrdiva 2008 LIVE recognises it but openSUSE 10.3 (now) does not recognise it (comes up with the error I mentioned earlier) and neither does 11.0 Beta 1 nor 2 (which had some 980+ upgrades done today).
With 11.0 Beta due out tomorrow I'll see if the problem still shows up in that.
(What I don't understand is why nobody else has mentioned this problem. So, is this suddenly only affecting me? Doubt it.)
Curious! Maybe some update or patch broke it and was backported to 10.3. Did you run the checkdisk in XP? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKviwtTMYHG2NR9URAkAdAJ4vM3K/FbwTGtVrINLRK2Qf+sKDHACfWXyC LESKa41LdYtFk2etTqif3UI= =QpVf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-05-14 at 23:27 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
I was wrong: 10.3 does not recognise the USB HD partition formatted in NTFS. It did until some recent upgrade- what that upgrade was I don't know.
Kubuntu 8.04 LIVE recognises the NTFS partition, Windows XP of course recognises it, and Manrdiva 2008 LIVE recognises it but openSUSE 10.3 (now) does not recognise it (comes up with the error I mentioned earlier) and neither does 11.0 Beta 1 nor 2 (which had some 980+ upgrades done today).
With 11.0 Beta due out tomorrow I'll see if the problem still shows up in that.
(What I don't understand is why nobody else has mentioned this problem. So, is this suddenly only affecting me? Doubt it.)
Curious!
Maybe some update or patch broke it and was backported to 10.3.
Did you run the checkdisk in XP?
Oh yes. And I always do it manually, using the DOS Command line because I discovered years ago that some Windows apps. - like XP's "chkdsk" - tell you lies when you use them to check the condition of the file system. Did more testing and found that Kubuntu LIVE (which uses kernel 2.6.24-16) and Mandriva LIVE (kernel 2.6.22-9) not only recognises the external USB HD with an NTFS partition but also recognises ALL of the other Windows partiontions on my dual boot system. openSUSE 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22.17-01) does not recognise the NTFS partition (as I mentioned already) - but it did at the beginning. openSUSE 10.3 KDE LIVE (kernel 2.6.22.5-31) does NOT recognise the NTFS USB's partition but DOES recognise it if the external USB HD is switched on when the LIVE is 'booted'. Now, the interesting part: v11.0 KDE4.1 Alpha LIVE (kernel 2.6.22.17-01, same as in current 10.3) doesn't see all the other partitions of an installed system BUT does recognise the NTFS partition on the external USB HD when it is switched on after the Alpha is running. I am waiting for the Beta, promised to be released today, to see if this "feature" of openSUSE has been solved. Ciao. -- Minds and parachutes only function properly when open. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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