This issue has nothing to do with mountall; mountall is the software
which, up through Ubuntu 14.04, is responsible for processing /etc/fstab
at boot and mounting all of your filesystems.
The problem you're seeing is a typical failure mode of a network
filesystem mount when the network (or the server) has gone away. There
are various options for how to handle these failures, with the default
being the most conservative (honor the request and wait indefinitely for
the server to be available).
See nfs(5) for available options to configure the behavior if you're
using NFS, or mount.cifs(8) if you're using CIFS.
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790112
Title:
mount fails to act on changing directories
Status in mountall package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I have a setup with two remote directories mounted as subfolders of my
home directory at boot. Works fine.
Once a network link goes down, however, even a terminal does not
return any command. e.g. opening a terminal ('Konsole'), and I do any
command (like 'ls'), this simply stucks forever. It has nothing to do
with Konsole, because the same behaviour applies for e.g. kdialog, so
when I want to save a file from the web-browser, Home is inaccessible
(just white space).
My best workaround is a reboot, because I can't issue a 'mount -a' due
to the lack of terminal responsiveness.
I think that's not really a bug, though a major hindrance.
I didn't give a package, because I don't know which that package
should be: mount works, kdialog and Konsole work. However, a lost
mount state seems to connect all input and output to /dev/null.
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