Comment 3 for bug 1772016

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Maciej Borzecki (maciek-borzecki) wrote :

The problem can be reliably reproduced on Ubuntu 18.10, Fedora 28/29 and Arch using this script: https://gist.github.com/bboozzoo/d4b142229b1915ef7cc0cf8593599ad9

The basic variant, in parallel, creates mount units on the fly, calls systemd-reload, followed by start and stop. On my machine it takes one loop to fail with:

   systemd[1]: tmp-mounttest-mount-15.mount: Mount process finished, but there is no mount.
   systemd[1]: tmp-mounttest-mount-15.mount: Failed with result 'protocol'.
   systemd[1]: Failed to mount mount unit for test 15.

Note there are some variants in the script too. A variant where units are preloaded before was not seen to fail. Similarly, the variant using mount/umount directly. The variant using systemd-mount was flaky and is clearly missing some synchronization of the state information between systemd and systemd-mount.