[Bug 1790112] Re: mount fails to act on changing directories

[Steve Langasek]

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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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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