Re: cifs boot time mounts fail after ugrading to Stretch

From	Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: cifs boot time mounts fail after ugrading to Stretch
Date	2017-06-20 18:30 +0200
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Wow Greg, youre awesome !


Le 20/06/2017 à 14:10, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
 > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:00:14AM +0200, guy@posteurs.com wrote:
 >> The problem is that systemd does not wait for DHCP addresses to be
 >> obtained.
 >> Being new to systemd I could not succeed in finding the right parameters
 >> and dependencies in order to have the mounts wait till we have an IP
 >> address.
 >> I tried remote-fs.target, network-online.target, and other hacks with no
 >> success.
 >
 > I can't help with CIFS mounts from fstab specifically, but I did learn
 > a thing or two about network-online.target in Debian due to a similar
 > issue with nfs-kernel-server.
 >
 > network-online.target only cares about interfaces that are listed as
 > "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces.  Not allow-hotplug.  It has to be
 > auto.
I would never have guessed this allow-hotplug thing.
Thank you very much.

 > Once you mark your interfaces as auto instead of allow-hotplug, then you
 > can create a dependency on network-online.target and have it actually
 > work.  I did so for the nfs-kernel-server package, which uses a systemd
 > service named nfs-server with an alias of nfs-kernel-server... and yes,
 > it took me a while to figure *that* mess out too.  Lesson #2: never try
 > to create a drop-in override for an *alias* name of a service.  You must
 > determine the actual non-alias name first.
 >
Hope I will remember. From now on, it looks like we will have to become 
familiar with systemd.

 > See <https://bugs.debian.org/860264> for more details.
 >
Dont you feel a bit alone there?

And sorry for the direct post to your mb,

-- 
guy

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cifs boot time mounts fail after ugrading to Stretch Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com> - 2017-06-18 19:40 +0200
  Re: cifs boot time mounts fail after ugrading to Stretch guy@posteurs.com - 2017-06-20 10:10 +0200
    Re: cifs boot time mounts fail after ugrading to Stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-20 14:20 +0200
      Re: cifs boot time mounts fail after ugrading to Stretch Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com> - 2017-06-20 18:30 +0200

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