Re: [PLUG] network drive doesn't mount on boot after update--how to check why?

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

On 3/8/2017 1:09 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:
> What does "mount -a" do after you unmou t?

Mounts it instantly.

> > /var/log/messages or /var/log/boot.log probably has some useful stuff in
> > there

I found this in /var/log/messages:

> Mar  6 15:49:23 filegate systemd: Mounting /media/networkdrive...


> Mar  6 15:50:53 filegate systemd: media-networkdrive.mount mounting timed out. Stopping.
> Mar  6 15:50:53 filegate systemd: Mounted /media/networkdrive.
> Mar  6 15:50:53 filegate kernel: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -512
> Mar  6 15:50:53 filegate systemd: Reached target Remote File Systems.

I did a search for "cifs_mount failed w/return code = -512" and while I 
couldn't find out what exactly return code -512 means, I did find 
someone suggest the mount option "_netdev".  From the man page:

> _netdev
>     The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system).

Apparently the updates changed something with the relative orders of 
mounting drives and network access coming up, so that the system was 
trying to mount the drive before the LAN was ready.  Adding that option 
in fstab fixed the issue.

Thank you!


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