Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 154129
hal applies the "pamconsole" option to filesystems which don't support it
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:43:04 EST
Description of problem: The /etc/fstab entry for my USB flash reader specifies the filesystem type as "vfat", and "pamconsole" as one of the flags. I can't mount it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.5.0.cvs20050404b-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use fdisk to partition a flash card, marking the partition as a "FAT16" (ID 6) partition. 2. Format the partition using "mkdosfs /dev/sdb4". 3. Insert the device. 4. Run "sudo mount /media/usbdisk" Actual results: Mount fails. /etc/fstab includes: /dev/sdb4 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,noatime,sync,managed 0 0 syslog includes: Apr 7 13:26:56 blade kernel: FAT: Unrecognized mount option "pamconsole" or missing value Expected results: The filesystem should be mounted. Additional info: This is an SD card in a USB reader, but I don't expect that it's specific to flash devices.
Apparently the vfat module also rejects the "managed" option. Removing both allows step 4 to complete successfully.
Both 'managed' and 'pamconsole' are only used by mount(1) and doesn't get sent to the kernel (it wouldn't make sense). This sounds like a util-linux regression?
Hmm, had an old util-linux-2.12pre-3 package on my box, so it wasn't current (2.12p-5 is newer, even if RPM doesn't think so).