[arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

[Stephen E. Baker]

On 04/09/2012 11:08 AM, Daniel Wallace wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2012 11:04 AM, "Guillermo Leira" <gleira at gleira.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have enabled systemd, and since then, I see the following:
>>
>> [root at guillelinux ~]# LANG=C pacman -Syu
>> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>>   core is up to date
>>   extra is up to date
>>   community is up to date
>>   multilib is up to date
>> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>> resolving dependencies...
>> looking for inter-conflicts...
>>
>> Targets (1): openssh-6.1p1-2
>>
>> Total Download Size:    0.53 MiB
>> Total Installed Size:   2.62 MiB
>> Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB
>>
>> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
>> :: Retrieving packages from core...
>>   openssh-6.1p1-2-x86_64                                     540.5 KiB
>> 2034K/s 00:00 [################################################] 100%
>> (1/1) checking package integrity
>> [################################################] 100%
>> (1/1) loading package files
>> [################################################] 100%
>> (1/1) checking for file conflicts
>> [################################################] 100%
>> warning: could not get filesystem information for /mnt/atlantac: No such
>> device
>> warning: could not get filesystem information for /mnt/atlantad: No such
>> device
>> warning: could not get filesystem information for /mnt/asusc: No such
> device
>> warning: could not get filesystem information for /mnt/asusd: No such
> device
>> warning: could not get filesystem information for /mnt/asusf: No such
> device
>> (1/1) checking available disk space
>> [################################################] 100%
>> (1/1) upgrading openssh
>> [################################################] 100%
>>
>> It seems that pacman tries to access or check every mounted filesystem in
> my
>> PC. It is not very important, except when I'm out of the office. I have
>> defined some mount points like this:
>>
>> 172.31.217.10:/vol/vol0 /mnt/up nfs
> noauto,x-systemd.automount,defaults
>> 0 0
>>
>> When pacman reaches this filesystems, that obviously can't be accessed
> from
>> outside the office, it hangs forever. I have to issue
>>
>> Systemctl stop mnt-systemd.up
>>
>> And then it works.
>>
>> Why is pacman trying to access all the mountpoints?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Guillermo Leira
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Because you you have Check space enabled in pacman.conf
As well, I would suggest adding x-systemd.device-timeout to your
fstab, so it doesn't hang forever.