Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66281
mount version after 2.11b falis to mount smbfs partition
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-3 i686) Description of problem: After upgrading mount from 2.11b (RH 7.1) to later versions (tried - 2.11g from 7.2, 2.11n from 7.3, 2.11n-15 from Rawhide), attempt to mount Samba partion via autofs, as well as with 'mount -t smbfs' fails. smbmount called directly works all right, backing down to mount 2.11b (keeping all other upgrades I made to move, partially, from RH7.1 to 7.3) restores mount functionality. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mount > 2.11b How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Setup: RH 7.1 with kernel and glibc (+ dependences) upgraded to RH7.3 mount-2.11n. Samba-2.2.4 (rpm from samba site) serves share C on windows machine called ladybug. Samba mount point /misc is NOT mentioned in fstab 1. Run smbmount # smbmount //ladybug/C /misc Password: xxxxxxxx # mount ..... //ladybug/C on /misc type smbfs # 2. unmount # umount //ladybug/C 3. Attempt mounting with mount fails # mount -V mount: mount-2.11n # mount -t smbfs //ladybug/C /misc Password: xxxxxxx execvp of smbmnt failed. Error was No such file or directory.smbmnt failed: 1 4. Restore old RH7.1 mount package and try again # rpm -U --oldpackage --nodeps mount-2.11b-3.i386.rpm # mount -V mount: mount-2.11b # mount -t smbfs //ladybug/C /misc Password: xxxxxxxxxxx # mount //ladybug/C on /misc type smbfs (0) 5. Check smbmnt for any case # ls -l /usr/sbin/smbmnt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 453868 May 5 14:01 /usr/sbin/smbmnt Actual Results: I expected old mount functionality to work as in previous version with smbfs system. Additional info: In reality I had autofs setup which suddently stopped working after upgrade. /var/log/messages contained mount errors, same as I was able to reproduce with direct calling to mount -t smbfs above.
It works here with rawhide as long as I have the samba-client package installed.
I have samba RPM from samba website, not RedHat. It includes in one package what RH has in split packages. Samba has released recently the version 2.2.5. I'll try this, and also will try RH rawhide Samba packages and report then.
samba 2.2.5 from samba site still conflicts with mount-11n, however you are right, mount-2.11n-5 with samba packages from rawhide (2.2.4) does work. Unfortunately, rawhide samba packages require (why ???) libcups. I don't use cups printing and prefer not to have useless packages installed. I do not understand why samba would require any particular printing package ( or any printing packages whatsover).
samba decides to link all its binaries against libraries that any of its binaries need... I'll assign to the samba package for fixing.
OK, the problem is understood the difference in samba packages from samba site and rawhide is that former has smbmount and smbmnt executables in /usr/sbin and latter - in /usr/bin. Somehow recent mount cannot find needed things in /usr/sbin (Im told it is smbmount which looks for smbmnt in BINDIR, rather than SBINDIR, bout mount may affect set pathes).
Mount and samba cooperates as distributed.
I'm working with the debian folk on getting the dependencies down, but we tried once and compeatly broke stuff. The second attempt is in HEAD at the moment, and will be expanded slowly. Don't expect this in 2.2 however.