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From: tuxic@××××××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why?
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 08:17:52
Message-Id: 20170521081732.kzwnluk6wroy3rto@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 05/21 08:46, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > On 05/21 08:41, Kai Krakow wrote:
3 > > Am Sun, 21 May 2017 08:15:57 +0200
4 > > schrieb tuxic@××××××.de:
5 > >
6 > > > I have a directory mounted via fuse.encfs (encrypted).
7 > > >
8 > > > Since kernel 4.11 (seldom, more often with 4.11.1 and 4.11.2) it
9 > > > happens that once in a sudden the system decides to make the
10 > > > contents unaccessible:
11 > > > 'mount' stills shows the mount of that directory but neither
12 > > > 'ls' or any other application can find the directory anymore.
13 > > > This happens while an application still accesses files
14 > > > of that directory (and the failure to do so shows that
15 > > > the "auto umount" has hit again).
16 > > >
17 > > > I fetched the kernel right off ftp.kernel.org (more
18 > > > exactlu: off a mirror of that).
19 > >
20 > > Why don't you use the gentoo-sources kernel ebuild? It has some special
21 > > patches for Gentoo userland... Tho I don't see any that may have
22 > > directly to do with your problem...
23 > >
24 > > But maybe you want to check if it happens there, too. They have at
25 > > least 4.11.1 available by now. Myself, I'm using ck-sources 4.11.1.
26 > >
27 > >
28 > > > What is happening here? Has Linus implemented a timer
29 > > > for that ? :)
30 > >
31 > > Do you use systemd and mounted it with a mount-timeout parameter
32 > > accidently?
33 > >
34 > > > Any help is very appreciated since this featire is VERY
35 > > > annoying!
36 > >
37 > > Since this is a fuse filesystem, check dmesg if there are any signals
38 > > regarding the fuse daemon: Maybe it just crashed. It doesn't really
39 > > unmount since you still see the mount point listed. Compare the running
40 > > fuse related processes before and after the issue.
41 > >
42 > >
43 > > --
44 > > Regards,
45 > > Kai
46 > >
47 > > Replies to list-only preferred.
48 > >
49 > >
50 >
51 > Hi Kai,
52 >
53 > thanks for your help!
54 >
55 > Cheers
56 > Meino
57 >
58 >
59 >
60
61 It happens again.
62
63 Linux kernel 4.11.0 (fetched from ftp.kernel.org mirror)
64
65 dmesg:
66 [ 3879.147626] encfs[4099]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000044ca52 sp 00007fb17d8d2990 error 4 in encfs[400000+95000]
67
68 Nothing more than this in the dmesg, though.
69
70 Cheers
71 Meino

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why? Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>