Re: fstab not automounting...

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 17 10:55, kosowsky wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 11:38:46 +0200 on Thursday, October 17, 2013:
>  > On Oct 17 01:49, kosowsky wrote:
>  > > Is there any way to get the entries in /etc/fstab to mount
>  > > automatically? (ideally also the ones in /etc/fstab.d too for the
>  > > current user)
>  > > 
>  > > I could have sworn that it did so in earlier versions of cygwin, but
>  > > now I seem to need to manually issue a 'mount -a' after each reboot...
>  > 
>  > /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab.d/$USER are loaded automatically only once.
>  > That is, at the time the first Cygwin process in a user session is
>  > started.  All other processes in the same user session just share the
>  > mount table if it's already in memory.  Changes are only propagated to
>  > the shared mount table in two cases:
>  > 
>  > - Use the mount -a command.
>  > 
>  > - Stop *all* Cygwin processes of the current user.  This will remove the
>  >   shared mount table from memory.  Start a new Cygwin process.  This
>  >   will re-create the shared mount table.
>  > 
> 
> Yes - I would have thought this would work -- but neither rebooting
> nor stopping all cygwin processes and shells serves to get my fstab
> read.
> I need to manually run 'mount -a' each time -- which completes without errors.
> I know I didn't need to do this in Cygwin 1.7 x86.
> I am now running Cygwin 1.7.25 x64
> 
> Any thought on what could be preventing fstab from working
> automagically.

No, WJFFM.  There's some sort of mismatch, either in the username or in
the paths.  Did you just copy /etc files from your 32 bit to your 64 bit
installation, perhaps?

Which fstab is the problem, the global /etc/fstab or the user-specific
/etc/fstab.d/$USER?

What are the permissions on /etc, /etc/fstab, /etc/fstab.d, and
/etc/fstab.d/$USER?  What is the content of the fstab files?  What's the
output of `id'?  What's the output of `grep $USER passwd'?

Last but not least, stop all Cygwin processes, start cmd.exe, cd to
C:\cygwin64\bin (assuming you installed into the default path) and then
run `strace -o fstab-test.trace ./echo foo'.  This creates the file
/bin/fstab-test.trace.  Copy it into a reply to this thread.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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