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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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pmount claims "unknown filesystem type" for supported FSes [solved?]

When I try to mount a drive with pmount (e.g. pmount /dev/sr0 as a limited user), I will get this error:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

Attempting to force a specific type (e.g. pmount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0) will get me this:

mount: unknown filesystem type '[whatever filesystem I specified]'

This happens even if I try to run pmount as root.

When run with --debug, pmount shows that it is going through each of the filesystem types in turn, but every attempt fails, claiming that "/sbin/mount was terminated with status 32". The correct filesystem type (e.g. iso9660 for a CD) produces the exact same response as incorrect types - all that the debug output says is that mount was terminated.

What is going on and how can I fix it?

Edit: works fine now after a reboot. No idea why.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2010-08-06 07:00:38)