Created attachment 615380 [details] fstab. Affected filesystems seem to be the cifs filesystems Description of problem: I have several cifs filesystems set to automount in fstab. Since upgrading from fedora 15 to fedora 17 I now have to type in a password to mount them. (That's an annoying change in behaviour I'd like to revert if possible, but not the focus of this bug. I guess if I could avoid the password prompt it might avoid me running into this bug, though). I find that the automount is unreliable. Sometimes a filesystem doesn't get mounted and everything trying to access the filesystem gets stuck (uninterruptable wait). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-44-17.fc17.i686 libmount-2.21.2-2.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.5.2-1.fc17.x86_64 anything else? How reproducible: Pretty easy, I think. Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot 2. fail to respond to one of the "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent" requests Actual results: whichever mount request didn't get a password response now seems to hang, and I don't get another password request. Expected results: automount. Additional info: I've discovered that if I manually mount the affected filesystem using "sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /tmp/tmpdir", then I get another password request and can unblock the chain. See the attached terminal output. I'm also attaching my fstab.
Created attachment 615390 [details] terminal output showing a manual mount unblocking stuck automount In the attached terminal output you can see me manually mount a filesystem and unblock automount. Prior to this interaction, I had another terminal stuck trying to "ls /1/serv5/TrafficRepository" for over an hour. What I think is happening is that after first logging in there's a queue of automount requests (scratch, TrafficRepository, Documents). I failed to supply a password for the second mount (TrafficRepository). This then caused something to get stuck. After I manually mount TrafficRepository (on a different mount point) I suddenly get prompted for a password to mount "Documents". When I later attempt to "ls" TrafficRepository, I get another password prompt, so all is working again.
Hello? Any comments? This is still a regular occurrence for me, and it's become standard practice when I reboot that I "ls" all my automounts and when/if they get stuck I manually mount/unmount any cifs mount under /tmp and that unblocks autofs.
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