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Gradient

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Registered: 2013-05-19

Posts: 101

umount: /media: mountpoint not found

I have this strange error when I try to umount my usb drive :

$ umount /media
umount: /media: mountpoint not found

fstab :

$ cat /etc/fstab
...
/dev/sdb1              /media      vfat       user,noauto,noatime,flush,fmask=133,dmask=022       0       0

Trying to mount again while it is already mounted :

$ mount /media
mount: /dev/sdb1 is already mounted or /media busy
       /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /media

It is strange because it has always worked before.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,164

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

Do you actually have a /media dir? If you don't have udisks installed, you may not since that package is what provides that dir for Arch.

If so, what is the output of "mount"?

Last edited by Scimmia (2013-08-17 03:09:45)

Gradient

Member

Registered: 2013-05-19

Posts: 101

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

Yes I have a /media folder and I can mount my files normally. I get the error message when I try to umount as a normal user. Umounting with sudo works.

mount command :

$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on /media type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0133,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,flush,errors=remount-ro,user=<user>)

hamelg

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 129

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

same issue with luks file system. It was working fine in the past ...
strange !

keichan2

Member

Registered: 2013-08-29

Posts: 1

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

I have the same problem.

In case you really need it, you can umount the FS as root…
Annoying, but it allows to clean things…

goliveira

Member

Registered: 2013-09-15

Posts: 1

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

I noticed the same issue with CDs. My fstab file contains the line

/dev/sr0    iso9660    /cdrom    defaults,ro,user,noauto    0 0

As a normal user, I can mount the CD as usual, but when I enter

umount /cdrom

I get the message

umount: /cdrom: mountpoint not found

mpausch

Member

Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 27

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

guys, opened a bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36968
maybe you could support the report by voting for it.

cheers

falconindy

Developer

From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

Website

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

maybe you could support the report by voting for it.

That isn't how things get fixed.

http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=137945227914961&w=2

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mpausch

Member

Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 27

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

maybe you could support the report by voting for it.

That isn't how things get fixed.

http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=137945227914961&w=2

... but it's worth a try ;-)

falconindy

Developer

From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

Website

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

No, it isn't. This is Arch (and volunteering/OSS in general). Things get done because people put in the effort to actually debug and fix things, not click vote buttons.

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mpausch

Member

Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 27

Re: umount: /media: mountpoint not found

problem's solved with update to util-linux 2.24
Thanks :-)