[Bug 284171] Re: Sometimes cannot mount flash disks (Intrepid)

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[Expired for util-linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
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** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Sometimes cannot mount flash disks (Intrepid)

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: util-linux

  Sometimes when I plug a flash disk, gnome cannot mount it. After when I go to terminal and run fdisk -l, always something like this happened:
  ==========
  This doesn't look like a partition table
  Probably you selected the wrong device.

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sdb1   ?      398636      983425   570754815+  72  Unknown
  Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
       phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(398635, 6, 23)
  Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
       phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(983424, 30, 61)
  Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  /dev/sdb2   ?       86419     1078237   968014120   65  Novell Netware 386
  Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
       phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(86418, 26, 1)
  Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
       phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1078236, 17, 53)
  Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  /dev/sdb3   ?      957932     1949749   968014096   79  Unknown
  Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
       phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(957931, 2, 32)
  Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
       phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1949748, 25, 36)
  Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  /dev/sdb4   ?     1478321     1478349       27749+   d  Unknown
  Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
       phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1478320, 8, 25)
  Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
       phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1478348, 22, 13)
  Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  ==========

  But after restart Linux, everything was OK.
  PS1: Flash disk is OK and it has vfat partition table.
  PS2: It happened after upgrading to Intrepid.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  Package: mount 2.14-1ubuntu2
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-server x86_64

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