[systemd-devel] Hang when mounting NFS via systemd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 23.09.12 17:21, Bardur Arantsson (spam at scientician.net) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> (Hopefully this list is appropriate for this -- please let me know if
> there's a more appropriate one.)
> 
> I'm having a little trouble with NFS mounts when starting them via
> systemd, but I'm hoping that I may have missed something obvious.
> 
> Here's the snippet from /etc/fstab:
> 
> 192.168.0.1:/srv/vg0p-data  /data nfs \
>    defaults,proto=tcp,nfsvers=4,vers=4,noauto 0 1
> 
> (Line split here for readability, it's a single line in the actual file.)
> 
> When I run
> 
>    # systemctl --version
>    systemd 189
>    arch
>    +PAM -LIBWRAP -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -SYSVINIT \
>          +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ
> 
>    # systemctl start data.mount
> 
> I get the output
> 
>    A dependency job failed. See system journal for details.
> 
> after a longish timeout (guessing it's the default 90s). In the journal
> I get:
> 
> Sep 23 17:08:45 gwendolyn systemd[1]: Job
> 192.168.0.1:-srv-vg0p\x2ddata.device/start timed out.
> Sep 23 17:08:45 gwendolyn systemd[1]: Job data.mount/start failed with
> result 'dependency'.

This indicates a bug i systemd actually. For some reason systemd appears
to believe that your NFS share is a device to wait for.

I tried to fix this in git with two commits. Please test!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.