Package: mount
Version: 2.13.1.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #371077

I had the same bug (or is it really the same? if my solution doesn't solve it
for the submitter, we should split this bug in two). A NFS share I knew
worked on a nearly identical machine had stopped working on a modified clone,
with the same useless error message:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on foo.bar:/baz/quux/,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

After I apt-get install nfs-common (which had been removed by aptitude when I
had removed the nfs server from the clone), it worked well. Indeed, the newly
required /sbin/mount.nfs program is in said package.

The debian version of mount should probably have a more useful error message
and explicitly suggest installing the nfs-common package.

So this is a documentation bug at this point. The upstream program should also
recognize the condition and have a more explicit error message. Debian needs
to override the message anyway.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.2-42.asl.2.intel.fc3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set 
to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mount depends on:
ii  libblkid1                     1.41.3-1   block device id library
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.65-5   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libuuid1                      1.41.3-1   universally unique id library

mount recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mount suggests:
ii  nfs-common                    1:1.1.4-1  NFS support files common to client

-- no debconf information



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