failing (network) mounts crash whole Xfe process
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#287 failing (network) mounts crash whole Xfe process
I have some directories from my NAS mounted into my root filesystem (using cifs for the SMB shares). Xfe works fine with them, but if one of them fails (e.g. when the network connection to my NAS is down), the whole Xfe process fails - the window is not rendered anymore, and even "kill -9" can't kill the process (I assume because it's waiting for I/O which doesn't happen). I would like Xfe to handle this situation more gracefully, e.g. by ignoring the failing metadata read (I suppose that is what makes Xfe freeze) or whatever make Xfe behave in this way.
As reference, this is how I mount the directories from my NAS (excerpt from /etc/fstab):
//192.168.0.20/Public /home/nas cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=20s,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,rw,async,username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 4
If more information is needed, I'd be happy to provide it.
HI, normally Xfe should warn about "File system is not responding" and stop to try reading file information on such a file system. This usually works... Sometimes it fails for obscure reasons.