Upgrade to JeOS Karmic kills smbfs: cifs filesystem not supported by the system

[Gurg Hackpof]

Binary package hint: samba

I had a perfectly working smbfs installation under Jaunty that doesn't work anymore in Karmic. I did a regular update the day of the release. smbfs package version is 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5

$ sudo mount -t smbfs //10.0.2.2/samba /opt/samba -o user=****,password=****
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

smbclient on the same share works without flaws.

$ sudo modprobe smbfs
FATAL: Module smbfs not found.

[Gurg Hackpof (drefleladi)]

Oh, and this doesn't work either, of course:

sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.2.2/samba /opt/samba -o user=****,password=****
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

[Gurg Hackpof (drefleladi)]

Hum... this is linked with PAE.

I just installed a non PAE kernel and the same command works perfectly now?!

It's probably worth noting that the whole stuff is running using the latest VirtualBox.

[Gurg Hackpof (drefleladi)]

Ok this bug is caused by the bug 453073 in linux-image-virtual (i386) which is caused by many modules missing on Karmic.

[Gurg Hackpof (drefleladi)]

A workaround is to install linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic and use that kernel instead.