Hi. I can confirm pretty much the same thing, being that my Windows XP partition could not be mounted on rebooting after the 12.10 upgrade, and it totally halted the system (I was given no "Press S to skip" option - the only keys that would do anything was Esc [toggle between showing Plymouth and verbose mode] and Ctrl+Alt+Del [reboot]).
Nothing is wrong with that NTFS partition, but the mount point does contain a space (/media/Windows XP), so it may be the "\040" issue. I booted with another drive and edited fstab (I simply commented out the whole line, as I had no idea if it was an issue with it mounting NTSF volumes or what not), and the system started fine (and the NTFS partition, being on the same drive as Ubuntu, was automatically mounted anyway). Once upon an upgrade, I had to actually edit fstab and replace the spaces with "\040" in order to get affected volumes to be mounted again - now it seems that's the very cause of this issue. While I obviously got past this, this issue would surely stump those with less experience, especially as many would have no idea how to boot with a Live CD or other Ubuntu drive and successfully edit fstab (keeping in mind Ubuntu won't automatically mount another Ubuntu/Linux system partition, so you'd have to know how to do this manually, then edit fstab as root). Also, it doesn't help that among the error messages it mentions nothing of spaces in the mount point, but states: "The volume may already be mounted, or another software may use it..." "mountall: File system could not be mounted /media/Windows XP" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059726 Title: Mounting drives that have '\040' in the name in fstab throws up an error during boot. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1059726/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
