/etc/fstab entries are not auto-mounted on boot
Describe your issue
What's the expected behaviour?
Entries in /etc/fstab should be automatically mounted on boot.
What's the current behaviour?
Entries in /etc/fstab are not automatically mounted on boot, user must run sudo mount -a in a terminal after startup.
How to reproduce your issue?
Add an SD card to the device, and add an /etc/fstab entry for the SD card, and check that it works with sudo mount -a. Then restart the device, and see that the SD card isn't mounted.
What device are you using?
Librem 5 Evergreen
On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?
-
edge (
masterbranch) -
v21.06 -
v21.03(supported until 2021-08-04)
On what environment did you encounter the issue?
Phone environments
- Phosh
- Plasma Mobile
- Sxmo
Other
- No environment
- GNOME
- KDE Plasma
- Kodi
- MATE
- Shelli
- Sway
- Weston
- Xfce4
- fbkeyboard
- i3wm
How did you get postmarketOS image?
- from https://images.postmarketos.org
- I built it using pmbootstrap
- It was preinstalled on my device
What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
Additional information
samuel@l5 ~ (master) $ cat /etc/fstab
# This file is *not* used to mount / or /boot.
# More information: https://postmarketos.org/fstab
UUID=<uuid> /home/samuel/Pictures ext4 defaults 0 2samuel@l5 ~ (master) $ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 275.2M 1 loop /var/lib/anbox/rootfs
sda 8:0 1 59.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 1 59.5G 0 part
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 120M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 29G 0 part /var/lib/anbox/rootfs/data
/var/lib/anbox/rootfs/cache
/var/lib/docker
/
mmcblk0boot0 179:32 0 4M 1 disk
mmcblk0boot1 179:64 0 4M 1 diskAnd dmesg only shows mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk0p2 being mounted.
Activity
Thanks for the report @samuelnorbury2!
The "localservice" openrc service is responsible for mounting entries in /etc/fstab. Can you investigate if it is running properly / enable it and check if that makes it work for you?
on the pinephone it appears to be running:
$ rc-service localmount status * status: startedBy Oliver Smith on 2021-07-24T10:20:24
Edited by Ghost User
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It might be that localmount is not in runlevel, and nothing requests it explicitly. In this case it should be possible to just enable it for default runlevel
By Alexey Min on 2021-07-26T07:33:13
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I ran
sudo rc-update add localmount defaultand rebooted, and the SD card was mounted correctly (automatically) after startup!Is this rc-service something that should be fixed more generally? I imagine others might want to use
/etc/fstab. Otherwise we can close this issue, as far as I'm concerned.By samuel norbury on 2021-07-26T07:33:13
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Thanks for reporting back - I've added a section in the wiki now: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fstab
Closing.
By Oliver Smith on 2021-08-01T15:13:15
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I don't know if I reported it incorrectly last time (most likely) or something changed, but this now doesn't work anymore.
After a reboot the SD is not mounted anymore
EDIT: But
localmountisstartedsamuel@l5 ~ (master) $ sudo service localmount status * status: startedBy samuel norbury on 2021-08-02T08:40:42
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Note that on my RockPro64's running postmarketOS,
localmountis listed as "needed/wanted". So, it's started by some other service that requires it. Checking the init files installed, for examplebootmiscneeds it which in my case is set as starting in thebootrunlevel, so that probably pulls it in.That said, as long as localmount has started, entries in
/etc/fstabshould be mounted. Could you post the contents of your SDcard? If possible try to use UUID's rather than filepaths for your SDcard.By Bart Ribbers on 2021-08-11T15:10:28
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I'm not entirely sure I understood your request, but here's some more data:
samuel@l5 ~ (master) $ ls Pictures/ drwxr-xr-x - samuel 12 Jul 21:50 .stfolder drwxr-xr-x - samuel 11 Aug 09:30 .thumbnails drwxr-xr-x - samuel 5 Aug 17:58 .Trash-10000 .rw-r--r-- 0 samuel 26 Oct 2019 .videorecorder.3gp.tmp drwxr-xr-x - samuel 12 Jul 22:10 100ANDRO drwxr-xr-x - samuel 11 Aug 09:39 Camera .rw-r--r-- 140k samuel 4 Aug 15:58 thing.png .rwxr----- 5.4M samuel 4 Dec 2019 IMG_20191204_173237.jpg drwx------ - samuel 10 Aug 21:33 lost+found drwxr-xr-x - samuel 13 Jul 09:52 PhotosEditor drwxr-xr-x - samuel 12 Jul 22:10 Restored .rw------- 196k samuel 28 Feb 15:15 signal-2021-02-28-141127.jpeg .rw------- 5.4M samuel 6 Mar 10:54 signal-2021-03-06-095121.mp4 samuel@l5 ~ (master) $ cat /etc/fstab # This file is *not* used to mount / or /boot. # More information: https://postmarketos.org/fstab UUID=0f32188c-793d-490f-a987-03a0ef0b2f65 /home/samuel/Pictures ext4 defaults 0 2By samuel norbury on 2021-08-11T19:33:38
Edited by Administrator
added type::bug label
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I just found this in my tinydm logs:
(phosh:6215): phosh-mount-manager-WARNING **: 20:23:17.968: Failed to mount volume 'Pictures': mount: /home/samuel/Pictures: must be superuser to use mount.By samuel norbury on 2021-11-25T16:07:38
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I can test the fstab entry by running
mount -aas non-root, which should work (and apparently must work for phosh).That fails with the same message. A little searching shows that I need to adjust my fstab mnt_opts (
default) to something like:rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,users,asyncorrw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,asyncto allow regular to users to mount and unmount, but that too is not working. Maybe someone else has a good idea about the mount options?By samuel norbury on 2021-11-25T16:07:38