Systemd.mount units fail to mount

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Same issue here, autofs, cifs-utils installed, working OK, Units correctly created [was working before], but stopped working after September update.
Strange is it mount CIFS during boot, but then its not mounted:
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# journalctl -xe|grep upload
Oct 04 16:43:31 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounting /mnt/upload…
– Subject: A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution
– A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution.
Oct 04 16:43:32 SERVER kernel: CIFS: Attempting to mount //192.xx.yy.zz/upload
Oct 04 16:43:33 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounted /mnt/upload.
– Subject: A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished successfully
– A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished successfully.
Oct 04 16:45:47 SERVER systemd[1]: Unmounting /mnt/upload…
– Subject: A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution
– A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution.
Oct 04 16:45:48 SERVER systemd[475]: mnt-upload.mount: Succeeded.
Oct 04 16:45:48 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Succeeded.
– The unit mnt-upload.mount has successfully entered the ‘dead’ state.
Oct 04 16:45:48 SERVER systemd[1]: Unmounted /mnt/upload.
– Subject: A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished
– A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished.
Oct 04 16:45:48 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounting /mnt/upload…
– Subject: A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution
– A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution.
Oct 04 16:45:48 SERVER kernel: CIFS: Attempting to mount //192.xx.yy.zz/upload
Oct 04 16:45:48 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounted /mnt/upload.
– Subject: A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished successfully
– A start job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished successfully.
Oct 04 16:46:11 SERVER systemd[1]: Unmounting /mnt/upload…
– Subject: A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution
– A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has begun execution.
Oct 04 16:46:11 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Succeeded.
– The unit mnt-upload.mount has successfully entered the ‘dead’ state.
Oct 04 16:46:11 SERVER systemd[1]: Unmounted /mnt/upload.
– Subject: A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished
– A stop job for unit mnt-upload.mount has finished.
Oct 04 16:46:13 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.automount: Succeeded.
– The unit mnt-upload.automount has successfully entered the ‘dead’ state.
Oct 04 16:46:13 SERVER systemd[1]: Unset automount mnt-upload.automount.
– Subject: A stop job for unit mnt-upload.automount has finished
– A stop job for unit mnt-upload.automount has finished.
Oct 04 16:46:13 SERVER systemd[1]: Set up automount mnt-upload.automount.
– Subject: A start job for unit mnt-upload.automount has finished successfully
– A start job for unit mnt-upload.automount has finished successfully.

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# df|grep upload
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system#

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# pwd
/lib/systemd/system

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# ll mnt-upload.mount
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 393 Oct 4 16:45 mnt-upload.mount

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# cat mnt-upload.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount upload folder
Wants=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service
After=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service

[Mount]
What=//192.xx.yy.zz/upload
Where=/mnt/upload
Type=cifs
Options=x-systemd.automount,noperm,noauto,ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/.credentials,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0 0 0

[Install]
WantedBy=network.target

It works OK, when I run it manually:
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status mnt-upload.mount

  • mnt-upload.mount - /mnt/upload
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated)
    Active: inactive (dead)
    TriggeredBy: * mnt-upload.automount
    Where: /mnt/upload
    What: //192.xx.yy.zz/upload
    Docs: man:fstab(5)
    man:systemd-fstab-generator(8)

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl restart mnt-upload.mount

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status mnt-upload.mount

  • mnt-upload.mount - /mnt/upload
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated)
    Active: active (mounted) since Tue 2022-10-04 17:03:12 UTC; 2s ago
    TriggeredBy: * mnt-upload.automount
    Where: /mnt/upload
    What: //192.xx.yy.zz/upload
    Docs: man:fstab(5)
    man:systemd-fstab-generator(8)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 975)
    CPU: 63ms
    CGroup: /system.slice/mnt-upload.mount

Oct 04 17:03:10 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounting /mnt/upload…
Oct 04 17:03:12 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounted /mnt/upload.
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# df|grep upload
//192.xx.yy.zz/upload 5763789624 2124143864 3639543360 37% /mnt/upload

There is no spec. char in the /etc/.credentials
username=rpiuser
password=*******

But nothing after reboot.
Any idea? Thank you for help.

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Hi djha53k,

I’ve moved your post to a new topic, as doesn’t like you are using autofs; rather Systemd.mount units.

What filesystem is being used on the shared upload folder on the pi? e.g ext4 or exFat

Regards Tom

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Mounts are shared from NAS via CIFS = SMB version 1.0 - 3.0, but it doesn’t work if I tried manually mount it with anything else then vers=1.0

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Just spotted the Unit was disabled :roll_eyes:
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl enable mnt-upload.mount
… restart …
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status mnt-upload.mount

  • mnt-upload.mount - Mount upload folder
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mnt-upload.mount; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2022-10-05 17:00:14 UTC; 24s ago
    Where: /mnt/upload
    What: //192.168.x.z/upload
    CPU: 43ms

Amended Unit line to:
Options=_netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/.credentials,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=3.0

Manual restart works:
root@sp13osmc:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status mnt-upload.mount

  • mnt-upload.mount - Mount upload folder
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mnt-upload.mount; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: active (mounted) since Wed 2022-10-05 17:54:11 UTC; 19s ago
    Where: /mnt/upload
    What: //192.168.x.z/upload
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 975)
    CPU: 45ms
    CGroup: /system.slice/mnt-upload.mount

But still not mounted after OS restart:
Oct 05 17:52:55 sp13osmc mount[296]: Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
Oct 05 17:52:55 sp13osmc systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
Oct 05 17:52:55 sp13osmc systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Oct 05 17:52:55 sp13osmc systemd[1]: Failed to mount Mount upload folder.

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Hi,

Please provide full logs as requested above.

Regards Tom.

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and back to original issue:
root@SERVER:/tmp# cp mnt-upload.mount /lib/systemd/system
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl daemon-reload;systemctl enable mnt-upload.mount;systemctl status mnt-upload.mount
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/network.target.wants/mnt-upload.mount → /lib/systemd/system/mnt-upload.mount.

  • mnt-upload.mount - Mount upload folder
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mnt-upload.mount; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: inactive (dead)
    Where: /mnt/upload
    What: //192.168.x.z/upload

Oct 05 18:39:03 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounting /mnt/upload…
Oct 05 18:39:04 SERVER mount[277]: mount error(101): Network is unreachable
Oct 05 18:39:04 SERVER mount[277]: Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
Oct 05 18:39:04 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
Oct 05 18:39:04 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Oct 05 18:39:04 SERVER systemd[1]: Failed to mount /mnt/upload.
Oct 05 18:44:32 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Succeeded.

# cat mnt-upload.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount upload folder
Wants=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service
After=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service

[Mount]
What=//192.168.x.z/upload
Where=/mnt/upload
Type=cifs
Options=_netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/.credentials,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=3.0

[Install]
WantedBy=network.target

Change Wants by Required:
Requires=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service
After=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service

restart … and nothing mounted again …

root@SERVER:~# df |grep upload
root@SERVER:~#
root@SERVER:~# systemctl status mnt-*

  • mnt-upload.mount - Mount upload folder
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mnt-upload.mount; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2022-10-05 18:53:27 UTC; 38s ago
    Where: /mnt/upload
    What: //192.168.x.z/upload
    CPU: 49ms

Oct 05 18:53:26 SERVER systemd[1]: Mounting Mount upload folder…
Oct 05 18:53:27 SERVER mount[278]: mount error(101): Network is unreachable
Oct 05 18:53:27 SERVER mount[278]: Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
Oct 05 18:53:27 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
Oct 05 18:53:27 SERVER systemd[1]: mnt-upload.mount: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Oct 05 18:53:27 SERVER systemd[1]: Failed to mount Mount upload folder.

This: mount error(101): Network is unreachable < seems like network-online.target is not UP at that time, but it is set as Required, so how come?

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Hooray issue FIXED!!!

CIFS mounted after restart:
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# df|grep upload
//192.168.x.z/upload 5763789624 2112536892 3651150332 37% /mnt/upload

I found one post on ArchLinux forum about “systemd-networkd-wait-online.service”, so gave it a try:
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl list-unit-files |grep -i wait
connman-wait-for-network.service disabled enabled
systemd-networkd-wait-online.service disabled disabled
systemd-time-wait-sync.service disabled disabled

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

  • systemd-networkd-wait-online.service - Wait for Network to be Configured
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Active: inactive (dead)
    Docs: man:systemd-networkd-wait-online.service(8)

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl restart systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

  • systemd-networkd-wait-online.service - Wait for Network to be Configured
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Active: active (exited) since Wed 2022-10-05 19:28:02 UTC; 3s ago
    Docs: man:systemd-networkd-wait-online.service(8)
    Process: 554 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Main PID: 554 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    CPU: 46ms

root@SERVER:/lib/systemd/system# cat mnt-upload.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount upload folder
Requires=network-online.target systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
After=connman.service network-online.target wpa_supplicant.service
Wants=network-online.target

[Mount]
What=//192.168.x.z/upload
TimeoutIdleSec=17
Where=/mnt/upload
Type=cifs
Options=x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=15,ro,_netdev,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/.credentials,uid=osmc,gid=osmc

[Install]
WantedBy=network.target

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