wired CIFS won't auto mount after reboot

mudrunner88 · April 9, 2018 at 7:04 PM

OK, I give up and need a hand. I followed the instructions in the wiki here to setup the sample cifs mount script.
Created a file in system.d call storage-recordings.mount

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[Unit]
Description=cifs mount script
Requires=network-online.service
After=network-online.target
Before=kodi.service

[Mount]
What=//192.168.2.98/Share/Plex/DVR
Where=/storage/recordings
Options=username=XXXXXXX,password=XXXXXXXXX,rw,vers=2.1
Type=cifs

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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I can do: systemctl enable storage-recordings.mount
and I get the proper symlinks for the directory.

I can then do: systemctl start storage-recording.mount

and it works fine.

Upon reboot, if I am using wired ethernet I get this error: (If I use Wireless it's fine)

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● storage-recordings.mount - cifs mount script
   Loaded: loaded (/storage/.config/system.d/storage-recordings.mount; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-03-08 03:31:12 EST; 1 month
s 1 days ago
    Where: /storage/recordings
     What: //192.168.2.98/Share/Plex/DVR
  Process: 530 ExecMount=/usr/bin/mount //192.168.2.98/Share/Plex/DVR /storage/r
ecordings -t cifs -o username=XXXXX,password=XXXXXX,rw,vers=2.1 (code=exited,
status=255)

Mar 08 03:31:07 tvHeadEnd systemd[1]: Mounting cifs mount script...
Mar 08 03:31:12 tvHeadEnd systemd[1]: storage-recordings.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited status=255
Mar 08 03:31:12 tvHeadEnd systemd[1]: Failed to mount cifs mount script.
Mar 08 03:31:12 tvHeadEnd systemd[1]: storage-recordings.mount: Unit entered failed state.

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I can type in the Process: 530 command manually and it works:

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mount //192.168.2.98/Share/Plex/DVR /storage/recordings -t cifs -o username=XXXXX,password=XXXXXX,rw,vers=2.1 (code=exited,
status=255)

Reboot and it's gone again. It seems as if the LAN connection isn't truely up yet even those the script says "after network-online.service" This is verified by using WLAN connection with no issues.

I tried to go into LibreElec settings ->Network->Advanced Network Settings ->Wait for network before starting kodi == ON, and Max Wait Time set up to 30secs.
This made no difference.

Anybody know how I can fix this?

**CvH** · April 9, 2018 at 7:19 PM Official Post

not sure what happens here, maybe the >1 network cards creating some problem here

some fix

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[Unit]
Description=cifs mount script
Requires=network-online.service
After=network-online.target
Before=kodi.service

[Mount]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 5
What=//192.168.2.98/Share/Plex/DVR
Where=/storage/recordings
Options=username=XXXXXXX,password=XXXXXXXXX,rw,vers=2.1
Type=cifs

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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add an delay to the mount script (5sec ... or whatever works)

ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 5

not sure if this works but I guess you can easily try this

mudrunner88 · April 9, 2018 at 7:36 PM

No go on the sleep, I set it up to 15 seconds and it does the same thing.

I Get Error: Unknown lvalue 'ExecStartPre' in section 'Mount'

BTW: Hardware is a RPi2, LibreELEC 8.2.4

**awiouy** · April 9, 2018 at 7:39 PM Official Post

And if you set "wait for network" in Settings/LibreELEC/Network?

mudrunner88 · April 9, 2018 at 8:16 PM

Quote from awiouy

And if you set "wait for network" in Settings/LibreELEC/Network?

At the end of my first post I stated that I set that as high as 30 seconds and still no joy.

Here is systemctl list-dependancies storage-recordings.mount

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storage-recordings.mount
● ├─network-online.service
● ├─system.slice
● └─network-online.target
●   └─kodi-waitonnetwork.service

To me those look good, but I'm not a Linux Guru

mudrunner88 · April 11, 2018 at 4:17 PM

So I disabled any extra services I added (tvHeadEnd Specifically) and the same issue occurs.

Reading the JournalCTL -b shows that right before the cifs mount fails I get the following error:

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connmand[317] Online check failed for 0x112c470 Wired

Tried multiple ethernet cables and have same problem.

UPDATE:

The above error only occurs when using a static IP address that is Wired. If I use wired DHCP the cifs mounts no problem, If I use STATIC or DHCP the cifs mounts no problem.

This is starting to looking like something that might need to be patched milhouse

I will continue trying to debug this afternoon as time persists.

mudrunner88 · April 12, 2018 at 1:45 AM

So I tried something new and it works but sounds like a temp fix.

The way my network is setup, I have my router plugged in to a SoHo Netgear 24port switch. My RPi2 was plugged into a port on the switch and all connectivity worked fine (except for above said problem with cifs).

I took the RPi ethernet cable and put it right into the back of my Router on an extra port and it works great all of the sudden.

I find this rather puzzling. The switches are layer 2 so it shouldn't be looking for an IP address, rather it would go by MAC address.

I know the MAC address table has the RPi's MAC in it, because it works fine once kodi is running.
I wonder if Connman isn't waiting long enough for the test to complete, or if latency is high it might fail.

So this sounds like an issue with Connman, not the timing of the execution as I thought before.