Error Formatting Volume Daemon Is Inhibited
communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top “The daemon is being inhibited” error message when mounting volumes on a partitioned external HD up vote 2 down vote favorite I'm having a great deal of difficulty with an external hard drive. I'm currently running a dual boot system (XP Service Pack 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl) on a Dell Inspiron B120. I'm trying to set up a new 80 GB Hitachi external HD. Using GParted, I formatted the drive and set up the partitions. The partitioning scheme is as follows 10GB NTFS Primary, 2GB Linux-Swap Primary, 50GB FAT32 Primary, 12GB Unallocated. After applying those changes, I went into Disk Utility and the HD appears along with the correct partitions. When I try to mount the volumes for partitions 1 and 3, I get a pop-up stating: Error Mounting Volume An error occurred while performing an operation on "Home" (Partition 3 of HTS548080m9AT00): The daemon is being inhibited. When I try to to check the filesystem I get a pop-up stating: Error Checking filesystem on volume An error occurred while performing an operation on "Home" (Partition 3 of HTS548080m9AT00): The daemon is being inhibited. Throughout the time that I'm attempting to troubleshoot the problem, the external drive light is on and blinking. With my frustration hitting a boiling point, I try to shut down the drive and remove it so that I can plug in a different external HD that works PERFECTLY. However, when I try to
communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top http://askubuntu.com/questions/51310/the-daemon-is-being-inhibited-error-message-when-mounting-volumes-on-a-partiti Formatting Pen Drive causes 'Daemon Is Inhibited' Error up vote 2 down vote favorite Am trying to format a drive with Disk Utility and everytime i try to format this pen drive i get 'Daemon Is Inhibited' error. How can it be solved since the pen drive works on other PCs with no problem. UPDATE The device is not mounted. The device is one of those usb pen drives with U3 http://askubuntu.com/questions/43967/formatting-pen-drive-causes-daemon-is-inhibited-error support. It is a Sandisk 8GB Pen drive with Fat32 Partition. 11.04 usb-drive format share|improve this question edited May 28 '11 at 15:32 asked May 19 '11 at 23:41 Luis Alvarado♦ 108k112401583 Is the drive mounted perchance? The daemon might be blocked from modifying the file system if the drive is mounted –crasic May 20 '11 at 1:24 Updated to include any relevant questions. Thanks crasic –Luis Alvarado♦ May 20 '11 at 1:37 have you come across this thread? Maybe sudo killall udisks or some of the other suggestions will work? ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604563&page=2 –fossfreedom♦ May 28 '11 at 15:45 1 You might be interested at How do I get rid of “U3 System” on my USB drive? –Lekensteyn May 28 '11 at 15:50 Thank you Lekensteyn. Nice post. –Luis Alvarado♦ May 28 '11 at 19:22 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted First, per my comment make sure that the drive isn't mounted (in case it was automounted on plugin). Ubuntu typically automounts in /media so you can check if anything is mounted in that directory either through nautilus (or any other FS browser) or with ls /media. unmount by running the command sudo umount /media/moun
Computing Tutorials Open Source Pro LearnWhat is Linux? Training Certification Events Webinars CommunityParticipate Q&A Forums Blogs ResourcesNewsletter Distributions Publications Infographics Photos https://www.linux.com/forums/storage/daemon-inhibited Videos Jobs dsiddens April 2, 2011 daemon is inhibited Forums:Storage I've got two 2.5" drives that I'm trying to get into the files. They are in external usb enclosures. They don't show up under "Places" (Ubuntu 10.04). However, I can see the partitions and sizes using Red Hat's Disk Utility. When trying to mount either of error formatting them I get the message "Daemon is inhibited". Will someone please post instructions, that if involving the command line, are exact? Thank you, Doug Print This Log in or register to post comments Like (0 likes) 8 Comments Comments RecommendedDate April 2, 2011 #2 mfillpot Have a look at the various methods others have used to error formatting volume fix the issue at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604563 . It sounds like udisk has crashed or is corrupt, all of the cases in the linked thread were resolved by either restarting the service or reinstalling the udisk package. Top Log in or register to post comments Like April 2, 2011 #3 woboyle Are these discs already formatted, or are they raw/blank discs? If they are formatted, what file system(s) is on them? What is the output if you execute the command (as root, or with sudo) fdisk -l Top Log in or register to post comments Like April 3, 2011 #4 dsiddens I went over to Ubuntuforums.org and read the above (and more). In my case the drives are in usb enclosures. I've experienced the same result on two computers loaded with different versions of Ubuntu. As for one of the computers, the laptop, it is usb connected to two other, large, drives and works fine. More ideas? Thank you, Doug Top Log in or register to post comments Like