Public bug reported: I tried plugging in an external USB drive for the first time after installing kpartx and multipath-tools, expecting it to automount through Gnome/Nautilus to /media/ . Only after removing kpartx did the automount behaviour return.
When the automount failed, it launched an error dialog reporting device already mounted or mount point busy. Trying to mount /dev/sdb1 manually resulted in a similar error, although umount said /dev/sdb1 wasn't mounted. Looking into DMesg I could see messages like this... [46092.602631] device-mapper: table: 252:2: multipath: error getting device [46092.602641] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table ...which made me suspect kpartx was involved somehow. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: kpartx (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic-pae 3.0.13 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Jan 24 12:28:50 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: multipath-tools UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/920956 Title: Kpartx interferes with automount behaviour To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/920956/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs