[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#695533: cifs-utils: mount.cifs errors on mount option _netdev

[Hugh Davenport]

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:4.5-2+squeeze1
Severity: important

Hi,

>From mount(8), under "FILESYSTEM INDEPENDENT MOUNT OPTIONS"
there is a mount option "_netdev" which is meant to require
the network to be up before attempting to mount. Full description
is below.

When the system is booted, I get the following in my error log:

 Dec 10 09:42:03 fir kernel: [   21.068520] CIFS: Unknown mount option _netdev
 Dec 10 09:42:03 fir kernel: [   21.116416]  CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
 Dec 10 09:42:03 fir kernel: [   21.116423]  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -111
 Dec 10 09:42:03 fir kernel: [   21.116459] CIFS: Unknown mount option _netdev

The filesystem is not mounted. Once I get a shell, I can `mount -a`
and the mount comes up correctly.

This has worked on mount.nfs, but not on mount.cifs. A bit of
googling found the following bug report in redhat that has been
resolved.

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607309

I also found the following from the debian-users mailing list
which didn't help.

 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/391641

Cheers,

Hugh


>From mount(8):

       _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).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii  libc6             2.11.3-4               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libkeyutils1      1.4-1                  Linux Key Management Utilities (li
ii  libkrb5-3         1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze6   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libtalloc2        2.0.1-1                hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  samba-common      2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8 common files used by both the Samb

cifs-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii  smbclient         2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

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