Bug#1040325: Network drives other than NFS are no longer automatically mounted after boot

[Alain Knaff]

Package: systemd
Version: 252.6-1

Package: initscripts
Version: 3.06-4

Hi,

We have several CIFS drives specified in our /etc/fstab

Until Debian 11 (with isc-dhcp-client), they got automatically mounted 
all right after boot.

No longer in Debian 12 (with dhcpcd-base)

Even adding _netdev to the drives' options in /etc/fstab didn't help.

Some investigation showed that /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs (part of 
initscripts: this is the script responsible for mounting network drives 
when new connections are brought up) sources /lib/lsb/init-functions, 
which itself sources parts in /lib/lsb/init-functions.d

/lib/lsb/init-functions.d/40-systemd (part of systemd package) checks 
whether mountnfs.service is "masked", and if so, exits before mounting 
any drives.

=> which means that networked drives other than NFS are not mounted!

Manually "unmasking" mountnfs.service fixes the issue, however I have a 
feeling that on a future Debian upgrade, mountnfs.service might get 
masked again.

Thanks for looking into this,
-- 
Alain Knaff
Ingénieur Informaticien

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