Bug 1496764 - Poor mount error
Summary: Poor mount error
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: util-linux
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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low
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-28 10:13 UTC by Mark van Rossum
Modified: 2017-10-02 11:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-10-02 11:32:08 UTC
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Description Mark van Rossum 2017-09-28 10:13:02 UTC 
Mount errors are not really informative

I was trying to mount a partition (that turned out to be slightly corrupted) 
I used 
 > mount /dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5/
and got as reply:

> mount: /media/sdb5: mount(2) system call failed: Bad message.

/var/log/messages did point out that I needed to run e2fsck and after that all is fine.

The error message of mount is just weird.
Comment 1 Karel Zak 2017-10-02 11:32:08 UTC 
This is because kernel uses EBADMSG errno for "Bad CRC detected" situation. 

I'll try to add something more human compatible :-) as output for this ugly errno to the upstream code. Fedora will be updated later.

Thanks!
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