Whoops, forgot to reply all: Nope, none of my joined paths are symlinks. I'm hopeful that the patch I linked will fix the problem; I'm just waiting to see if it crashes in the next week or so. Have you tried that patch yet?
On Sep 20, 2017 1:12 AM, "Roman Mamedov" <r...@romanrm.net> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:49:06 -0700 > Ben Gladstone <ben@gladstone.digital> wrote: > > > I unfortunately haven't been able to identify a pattern, but every > couple of days mhddfs > > crashes, giving me the message "The transport endpoint is not > connected." when I try to access > > anything mounted by mhddfs. It's easy enough to fix, just "umount -l > <mountpoint> && mount <mountpoint>" > > and it starts working again, but when it crashes it causes problems for > any programs currently > > accessing that directory. > > > > When it crashes, this line appears in dmesg: > > > > mhddfs[561]: segfault at 0 ip 0000559e3eae159c sp 00007f2cded0da50 error > 4 in mhddfs[559e3eadc000+a000] > > > > I researched this issue and found a number of people talking about it > online but I didn't find a bug > > report on the Debian bug tracker (I'm pretty sure it's not the same bug > as the segfault caused by updatedb). > > > > I believe I've found someone who's patched it already though, here's > > his blog post about it: http://nramkumar.org/tech/ > blog/2015/09/23/mhddfs-crash-with-ubuntu-14-04/. He > > has posted the patch here: https://github.com/ram-nat/mhddfs/commit/ > 26d0f119eaa7e3ffaaf330bf29672e13471cb091. > > > > I'm trying out his precompiled binary to see if it fixes the issue for > me as well, but it hasn't been > > long enough to know yet. Anyway, assuming it works, can we get this > patch merged into the main branch? > > FWIW I had tons of segfaults with mhddfs in the past (usually when browsing > the mounted FS with Thunar file manager), then I've not used it for a > period of > time, then went back to using it recently, and have zero segfaults > whatsoever > now. > > I don't know what could be the change helping with this, in any case my > versions are: > > Kernel 4.9.41 (Self-compiled) > fuse 2.9.3-15+deb8u2 > libc6:amd64 2.24-11+deb9u1 > mhddfs 0.1.39+nmu1 > > One thing to check (some hunch), is any of your joined paths actually a > symlink > itself? > > -- > With respect, > Roman >
