[Pkg-samba-maint] Can't do more than one cifs mount

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Wed Jan 23 11:18:37 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:20:55PM -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Sunday 20 January 2008 22:16:22 you wrote:
> > Samba 3.0.28-2 cannot do more than one cifs mount at a time. The second
> > mount will segfault and freeze the X server hard. I have two mounts,
> > unfortunately, and it is a real pain to umount one before mounting the
> > other. It doesn't matter which order they mount in; the second one
> > segfaults. Here are the fstab entries:

> > //192.168.1.11/E /home/peter/mnt/SERVER/E cifs
> > defaults,guest,sec=none,noperm    0       0
> > //192.168.1.11/shuttle /mnt/SERVER/shuttle cifs
> > defaults,guest,sec=none,noperm   0       0

> [snip]

> I downgraded to version 3.0.24-6etch9. When attempting to mount via cifs, the 
> same error occurred. When using smbfs, the issue resolved. 

> I agree with others on this list; the switchover to cifs for all Samba mounts 
> is premature.

This bug is reproducible for me with 2.6.22 and these exact mount options.
Unfortunately the machine I was able to reproduce it on is across the ocean
from me at the moment, so I have to wait a bit before I can confirm whether
it's reproducible with other mount options; I'm pretty sure it's not when
using a normal authenticated mount.

It's also not reproducible for me on a system running 2.6.24rc5, so all the
more reason to not treat it as a blocker for the smbfs->cifs switch since
it's /already/ been fixed by kernel upstream.

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