Comment 41 for bug 106209

Was just hit by this problem in fully updated Ubuntu 7.10

Apparently, for whatever reason, the UUID of my Windows NTFS partision changed name
from
UUID=49862ec3-2b4b-4f20-a8b6-a57c75ee9952
to
UUID=B460AD0660ACD082

1) OBVIOUSLY not automounting a windows partition should NOT halt booting into Linux (CTRL-D/d didnt do anything, had to ALT-CTRL-DEL... which then BTW took me to the desktop?!?... talk about unexpected behaviour).

2) Were on earth is the UUID change coming from? Is it some changes to ntfs-3g? The drive has obviously NOT been formated or had the UUID changed by me manually.

3) Somehow, after getting into the desktop, and opening /etc/fstab the NEW UUID has replaced the old UUID (in the console the old UUID was still there). Is this some kind of autofix/recovery? If it is, then it's still a bit broken since the update happens only AFTER the boot grinds to a halt and you manage to bypass it... by ALT-CTRL-DEL... (?!?!?)

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Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
Sat Mar 1 07:02:08 2008

fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
/dev/sda5: clean, 38/44176 files, 39660/88294 blocks
/dev/sdc5: clean, 26900/61063168 files, 101604714/122095992 blocks
/dev/sdb5: clean, 29431/30539776 files, 51986176/61048992 blocks
/dev/sda7: clean, 21514/1310720 files, 1060626/2620595 blocks
/dev/sda9: clean, 61076/24363008 files, 44087874/48705055 blocks
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=49862ec3-2b4b-4f20-a8b6-a57c75ee9952'
fsck died with exit status 8
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Excerpt from /etc/fstab
...
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=B460AD0660ACD082 /media/WinXP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
#WTF happened, below UUID got replaced by above automatcally...
#UUID=49862ec3-2b4b-4f20-a8b6-a57c75ee9952
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