[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#415482: initscripts: fails to umount mountpoints with spaces

[Piotr Kaczuba]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

When mounting a device on a mountpoint with spaces in it (say "My Book",
this is the default partition name for a WD external USB drive), mount
writes My\040Book in /etc/mtab (as does pmount and gnome-mount). On
shutdown or reboot /etc/init.d/umountfs then fails to umount the drive
with the following message:

Could not find /media/My040Book in mtab
umount2: No such file or directory
umount: /media/My040Book: not found

Thus the drive is not unmounted.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3-orbiter.x86-64.1
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianut 2.18                            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-13                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base 3.1-23.1                        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount    2.12r-19                        Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit 2.86.ds1-38                     System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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