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  • Network mounts in /etc/fstab causing service ordering cycle

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 25 20:00:01 2025
    Hi!

    I have added a few lines to /ets/fstab like this:

    //u271407.your-storagebox.de/backup /mnt/hetzner cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,user=u271407,pass=******,uid=1000,gid=1000,cache=loose 0 3

    //192.168.0.4/Root /mnt/rp64-root cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,user=nils,pass=******,uid=1000,gid=1000,cache=loose 0 3

    192.168.0.4:/mnt/hdd /mnt/hdd nfs defaults 0 3

    /mnt/hdd/Programme /home/nils/Programs none bind 0 4

    However, this is causing a service ordering cycle between "local-fs.target"
    and "network-online.target" which in turn causes services to be missing after bootup unpredictably. Usually that causes XWayland to fail as well as NetworkManager.

    How do I get out of this situation? What could I be doing wrong?

    Thanks in advance

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  • From Greg Wooledge@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Apr 25 20:10:02 2025
    On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 17:58:20 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
    I have added a few lines to /ets/fstab like this:

    //u271407.your-storagebox.de/backup /mnt/hetzner cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,user=u271407,pass=******,uid=1000,gid=1000,cache=loose 0 3

    You're missing the _netdev flag in your options. I'd start with
    that. It's definitely needed for NFS mounts, and I'm guessing you'll
    need it for your CIFS mounts also.

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  • From Detlef Vollmann@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Apr 25 21:30:01 2025
    On 4/25/25 19:58, [email protected] wrote:

    192.168.0.4:/mnt/hdd /mnt/hdd nfs defaults 0 3

    /mnt/hdd/Programme /home/nils/Programs none bind 0 4

    This is looking suspicious: mounting a local directory
    on top of a network mount.

    Detlef

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Wooledge on Sat Apr 26 00:40:01 2025
    On Friday, April 25, 2025 8:03:50 PM Central European Summer Time Greg Wooledge wrote:
    You're missing the _netdev flag in your options. I'd start with
    that. It's definitely needed for NFS mounts, and I'm guessing you'll
    need it for your CIFS mounts also.

    Hi! Thanks for the idea. I have added _netdev, however this isn't changing the startup behavior :-(

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Vollmann on Sat Apr 26 00:40:01 2025
    On Friday, April 25, 2025 9:28:49 PM Central European Summer Time Detlef Vollmann wrote:
    On 4/25/25 19:58, [email protected] wrote:
    192.168.0.4:/mnt/hdd /mnt/hdd nfs defaults 0 3

    /mnt/hdd/Programme /home/nils/Programs none bind 0 4

    This is looking suspicious: mounting a local directory
    on top of a network mount.

    Nope, this simply binds a network location onto a local directory. Which... shouldn't? be a problem?

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  • From Detlef Vollmann@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Apr 26 15:50:01 2025
    On 4/26/25 00:35, [email protected] wrote:
    On Friday, April 25, 2025 9:28:49 PM Central European Summer Time Detlef Vollmann wrote:
    On 4/25/25 19:58, [email protected] wrote:
    192.168.0.4:/mnt/hdd /mnt/hdd nfs defaults 0 3

    /mnt/hdd/Programme /home/nils/Programs none bind 0 4

    This is looking suspicious: mounting a local directory
    on top of a network mount.

    Nope, this simply binds a network location onto a local directory.

    You're right.

    Which...
    shouldn't? be a problem?

    If mount considers a 'bind' mount a local mount, it could cause exactly
    the circle you're seeing.

    Detlef

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Vollmann on Mon Apr 28 14:10:01 2025
    On Saturday, April 26, 2025 3:40:31 PM Central European Summer Time Detlef Vollmann wrote:
    If mount considers a 'bind' mount a local mount, it could cause exactly
    the circle you're seeing.

    Detlef

    Ohhhhh!! Removing that totally solved the issue!

    Thank you so much!

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