Jay Fenlason
2003-May-14 20:05 UTC
[fenlason@redhat.com: Re: [Samba] mount dies misteriously]
I meant to send this to the list as well. ----- Forwarded message from Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> ----- From: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> To: Balla Zsolt <zsolt.balla@plazakommunikacio.hu> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:01:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [Samba] mount dies misteriously On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:03:02PM +0200, Balla Zsolt wrote:> Hi samba gurus, > > A samba connection between a RedHat 9 and a win2000 is given, where > mount -a sometimes (sometimes - i couldn't notice any order in that) > dies completely. > If it is during the boot process, the whole boot process stops without > any further error message or anything. (you have to enter the > interactive startup, say no to the smbmount and say mount -a as root > from a console) > > the specific line in /etc/fstab is: > > //andrea/plazazaza /plazazaza smbfs user,uid=500,username=samba,password=samba 0 0 > > share and directory names and chmod are correct, as it - suprisingly - > mounts the directory, the problem is that it doesn't give back the > command line (the suprising and misterious thing is that it sometimes > does), so i have to kill the smbmount process or close the console. > > if it seems to work properly (it mounts the directory and gives the > command prompt back) and you say umount -a and mount -a again, it may > stop without any further reason (and any error message). > > it is annoying and embarrassing at the same time. Where shall i look for > the solution? > > it is a samba-2.2.7a-8.9.0 if it does matter at allYou're using smbfs, which is only vaguly related to samba (smbfs is part of the Linux kernel). What you're encountering is a bug in glibc http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90036 which causes the smbmount process to hang. As you can see by the size of the cc: list on the bug, you're not alone. Add yourself to the cc: list so you'll get notified when a resolution is avaliable. In the mean time, I'd suggest adding noauto to the mount options for this filesystem, and mount it by hand after the system has booted. ("mount -a -t smbfs" is what I use.) -- JF ----- End forwarded message -----