Bug#985451: Unable to read the contents of exfat file system

Marc Haber

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Mar 18, 2021, 9:20:03 AM3/18/21

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Package: gparted
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

a partition formatted with the exfat file system is flagged in the
partition list with an exclamation mark. Information says "Warning:
Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some
operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software
package. The following list of software packages is required for exfat
file system support: exfatprogs."

exfatprogs is installed.

In an strace, I can see an execve for tune.exfat -l /dev/sdg1 which
returns like:
exfatprogs version : 1.1.0
label: zg2emerg

I didn't see any obvious error in strace, and unfortunately gparted does
not share what it has been trying to do to determine that it cannot read
the file system.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.11.6-zgws1 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gparted depends on:
ii gparted-common 1.2.0-1
ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.28.0-3
ii libc6 2.31-9
ii libcairomm-1.0-1v5 1.12.2-4
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.7-2
ii libglibmm-2.4-1v5 2.64.2-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-3
ii libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 3.24.2-2
ii libpangomm-1.4-1v5 2.42.1-1
ii libparted-fs-resize0 3.4-1
ii libparted2 3.4-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.4-2
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libuuid1 2.36.1-7
ii policykit-1 0.105-30

gparted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gparted suggests:
pn dmraid <none>
ii dmsetup 2:1.02.175-2.1
ii dosfstools 4.2-1
ii e2fsprogs 1.46.2-1
pn gpart <none>
pn jfsutils <none>
ii kpartx 0.8.5-1
ii mtools 4.0.26-1
ii ntfs-3g 1:2017.3.23AR.3-4
pn reiser4progs <none>
pn reiserfsprogs <none>
pn udftools <none>
pn xfsprogs <none>
pn yelp <none>

-- no debconf information

Mike Fleetwood

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Jan 23, 2022, 5:50:03 AM1/23/22

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This issue was fixed upstream in GParted 1.3.0 (and later) released
03-May-2021.
https://gparted.org/news.php?item=238
"Improve exFAT support such as read FS usage and set UUID"

Thanks,
Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer)

Marc Haber

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Feb 9, 2022, 5:00:03 AM2/9/22

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Hi,

please revisit this bug report solution. You claim the bug was solved by
Suggesting exfatprogs, while I observed the bug on a system that
actually HAD exfatprogs installed when the bug appeared. gparted
actually called an exfat program successfully and got a sensible reply.

Frankly, I don't think that adding exfatprogs to Suggests: will help in
this situation.

Greetings
Marc

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:51:07PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> #985451: Unable to read the contents of exfat file system
>
> * Suggest exfatprogs (Closes: #984714, #992224, #985451)

> a partition formatted with the exfat file system is flagged in the
> partition list with an exclamation mark. Information says "Warning:
> Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some
> operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software
> package. The following list of software packages is required for exfat
> file system support: exfatprogs."
>
> exfatprogs is installed.
>
> In an strace, I can see an execve for tune.exfat -l /dev/sdg1 which
> returns like:
> exfatprogs version : 1.1.0
> label: zg2emerg