Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 37439
mount reports failed mount but succeeds
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Every reboot, my mount reports: Apr 24 10:44:18 empress mount: mount: mount point /var/lib/amanda/staging does n ot exist but the mountpoint exists and when I open a shell the disk has been mounted. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/amanda/staging 2. set up fstab to mount a partition onto /var/lib/amanda/staging 3. reboot (mount -a doesn't show the same symptoms) Actual Results: Produced (approximately) the following error message: mount: mount point /var/lib/amanda/staging does not exist [FAILED] Expected Results: rc script should have reported [PASSED] for this section. Maybe fixed string length somewhere makes existence test fail but not mount?
By any chance, is /var a separate partition? In that case, is it possible you're trying to mount /var/lib/amanda/staging before /var is mounted?
Closing due to lack of feedback
Sorry about the delayed reply. Looks like you were right. I think I changed the order of mounts in /etc/fstab so that /var/lib/staging/amanda is listed after /var and I stopped seeing the error message. I wasn't keping a revision history of the fstab file at the time, so I'm not sure and I may have set the fscheck order flag to 2, but I think it was just the line order I switched. Not sure why it printed the error message _and_ mounted before, but I no longer see the errant message. Thanks for your help.