http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606969 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606969#c0 Summary: Mounting network drives leads to deadlock, slow initialization of network interface Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: marc@marcchamberlin.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) It appears that there is a deadlock that is resolved by a slow timeout when attempting to mount a network drive via fstab. On my server I use fstab to mount a NAS multi terabyte disk drive. It appears that the network name for the device cannot be resolved until other services such as DHCP and Named become active. This leads to a deadlock that fails to allow the network daemon to initialize the interface (in my case eth1, my second NIC) until the initial attempt to mount the network drive times out. That slow initialization of eth1 can lead to other failures downstream such as preventing my Bacula backup daemon from automaticlly starting up as well... See my discussion on the openSuSE newsgroup - opensuse@opensuse.org started April 25, 2010, under the thread - "Slow startup of network interface" for further details. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add a networked mount in fstab 2. boot up system 3. determine when the interface for that network is actually initialized. Actual Results: Network drive is never mounted automatically... Network interface card is initialized only after a long timeout occurs from the failed attempt to mount the network drive Expected Results: I expect the network card to initialize promptly during boot up. I also expect the network drive to be properly mounted. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.