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Description of problem: While trying to mount remote volume from a server over ncp, ncpmount and ncpumount produced some warnings about not being able to update /etc/mtab. Actually it does mount and unmount things, except it can't update /etc/mtab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ncpfs-2.2.6-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ncpmount /some/thing 2. ncpumount /some/thing Actual results: After ncpmount: "Can't set perms on /etc/mtab" After ncpumount: "Can't get /etc/mtab~ lock file: File exists" Expected results: Additional info: Looks like it doesn't like the fact that /etc/mtab is a symbolic link now, perhaps it expect it to be a regular file instead.
Same problem here using Fedora 15 x86_64. Besides, "suspend" fails if I don't manually "umount" NCPFS mounts before suspending (I'm opening a separate bug for this issue).
Still happens on Fedora 16. uname -a: Linux dscpu017 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 21 22:41:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ncpfs package version: 2.2.6-14.fc15
It can't update /etc/mtab because starting with fedora 15 it is symlink to read-only /proc/self/mounts. The lock file is left behind due to bug in the source code. Btw, ncplogin (and probably some more utils) is broken too and still not fixed on Fedora 17.
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