Gigablue X2 crashes when trying to set mount for USB hard drive

[twol]

Thanks for all that - I have only just come back in and I need to supply you with an updated version to give some debug.
A question for you. The dmesg indicates that you have both sda1 and sda2 on the usb, but its saying there are no partitions defined . Are sd1 and sda2 actually formatted correctly???
Dmesg .....
<4>[ 16.684000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda1): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)
<4>[ 16.854000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda1): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)
<4>[ 18.466000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda2): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)
<4>[ 18.652000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda2): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)

[point17]

Thanks for all that - I have only just come back in and I need to supply you with an updated version to give some debug.
A question for you. The dmesg indicates that you have both sda1 and sda2 on the usb, but its saying there are no partitions defined . Are sd1 and sda2 actually formatted correctly???
Dmesg .....
<4>[ 16.684000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda1): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)
<4>[ 16.854000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda1): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)
<4>[ 18.466000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda2): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)
<4>[ 18.652000] UDF-fs: warning (device sda2): udf_fill_super: No partition found (2)

Apologies - have been on (ongoing) childcare duties.....

The disk that's plugged in is correctly partitioned - it's just a single NTFS partition. It reads and writes fine plugged into the PC and, until yesterday, worked fine on the GBX2. But the dmesg is wrong in saying that there are two devices on the USB - only one is plugged in.

I'll look at your other message later this evening. Not sure I can save the debug logs anywhere other than the flash because, of course, I have no disk storage until the problem is fixed. Will see what can be done. Do I need to install the new MountManager again?

Thanks,
Dan

[twol]

Apologies - have been on (ongoing) childcare duties.....

The disk that's plugged in is correctly partitioned - it's just a single NTFS partition. It reads and writes fine plugged into the PC and, until yesterday, worked fine on the GBX2. But the dmesg is wrong in saying that there are two devices on the USB - only one is plugged in.

I'll look at your other message later this evening. Not sure I can save the debug logs anywhere other than the flash because, of course, I have no disk storage until the problem is fixed. Will see what can be done. Do I need to install the new MountManager again?

Thanks,
Dan

Yes, you need to copy over the latest MountManager - it has added debug.
The hardware is seeing sda1 & sda2 allocated on the usb
Flash is OK for this test!
Assuming this test doesn‘t cause a crash, I would post the debug, then completely reformat the usb

[BrokenUnusableAccount]

The disk that's plugged in is correctly partitioned - it's just a single NTFS partition.

Presumably you need the ntfs plugin for the box to see that.
So perhaps check the ntfs plugin from the feeds is still installed.

[twol]

Presumably you need the ntfs plugin for the box to see that.
So perhaps check the ntfs plugin from the feeds is still installed.

Good thinking - might simplify the code in this area

[point17]

Fantastic! Thanks both. I just KNEW it would come down to something stupid I had done, or forgotten to do. In my defence I have only done this once before and it was some time ago, so it's not entirely unexpected that I would have completely forgetten that I needed NTFS drivers installed.

Seems to be working now. In Information -> Devices the correct free space is being picked up, and the disk mounted with no problems. I've even got it visible as a network drive on my Windows PC via Samba.

One minor suggestion: do you agree it would be nice if the absence of the NTFS drivers could be picked up by MountManager, rather than resulting in a crash?

Thanks again for your help.
Dan

[twol]

Fantastic! Thanks both. I just KNEW it would come down to something stupid I had done, or forgotten to do. In my defence I have only done this once before and it was some time ago, so it's not entirely unexpected that I would have completely forgetten that I needed NTFS drivers installed.

Seems to be working now. In Information -> Devices the correct free space is being picked up, and the disk mounted with no problems. I've even got it visible as a network drive on my Windows PC via Samba.

One minor suggestion: do you agree it would be nice if the absence of the NTFS drivers could be picked up by MountManager, rather than resulting in a crash?

Thanks again for your help.
Dan

I am looking to do that! Did you try the MountManager from last post?