Re: Corruption of Samba mount points
On Wed 18 Nov 2020 at 21:41:30 (+0000), Joe wrote:
> It began with booting this morning. No wallpaper. No network shares
> mounted (they are set to automount using systemd, but if I tried
> accessing most of them, the error message contained the path of the
> mount point followed by 'no such device'.
>
> The mount points looked OK in a GUI file manager and also with mc. Doing
> an ls-l of the parent directory showed a few mount points as normal, the
> others showed the name and the 'd' of the permissions string, but
> everything else was '?' marks.
>
> Eventually tried umounting the affected points, and all was well after
> that.
>
> The same thing happened at the next boot of the day, it wasn't an
> ephemeral glitch, though the mount points affected weren't exactly the
> same ones.
>
> I assume one of the upgrades to sid last night was responsible for
> this, other computers have no problem seeing the same shares. Anyone
> else seeing it, Google doesn't seem to find anything?
I don't know if it helps to know that you need x permission to see any
more in a directory than, eg:
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? DCIM
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? MISC
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? README
Cheers,
David.
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