mhddfs keeps crashing after upgrade to 14.04 LTS

[Olivier Bruchez]

I've been using mhddfs for years under 12.04 LTS without any problem. After upgrading to 14.04 LTS, mhddfs started crashing regularly (several times per hour). My workaround is to do an unmount -l / mount, but this is clearly not a solution.

Here's my fstab entry:

mhddfs#/mnt/drobo1,/mnt/drobo2,/mnt/drobo3,/mnt/drobo4 /mnt/drobo fuse nonempty,allow_other 0 0

[Olivier Bruchez (olivier-0)]

UNera: do you have the time to have a look at the crash dump?

[Olivier Bruchez (olivier-0)]

I've downgraded mhddfs from 0.1.39+nmu1ubuntu1 to 0.1.38. It doesn't seem to crash anymore.

[travis (taw34)]

i have always been on 14.04 and have been using mhddfs for a few weeks now and it was fine -- all of a sudden it started crashing all the time tonight..... i am a linux noob can you tell me how to downgrade to 0.1.38?? I did do apt-get remove mhddfs and it got rid of 0.1.39+nmu1ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Olivier Bruchez (olivier-0)]

To downgrade, just add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main universe restricted multiverse

And then:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mhddfs=0.1.38

[Olivier Bruchez (olivier-0)]

The "multiverse" is on the same line as the "deb ..." line.

[travis (taw34)]

thank you so much -- mhddfs crashing is very annoying! i used it bc i thought it was stable compared to the work it would be to get afus up and running

[Ram N (ram-i)]

I think I've found the problem and have a patch for it - https://github.com/ram-nat/mhddfs/commit/26d0f119eaa7e3ffaaf330bf29672e13471cb091

[Daniel Louw (l-daniel-g)]

Just an update from 2017 - this bug is still alive. It looks like even the latest version of ubuntu uses the affected version, so there is no reason for me to upgrade beyond 14.04 presently.

Downgrading MHDDFS to 0.1.38 seems to do the trick.

[Olivier Bruchez (olivier-0)]

Has anybody tried to downgrade mhddfs to 0.1.38 on Ubuntu 18.04?

I'm currently stuck at:

W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise Release: The following signatures were invalid: 630239CC130E1A7FD81A27B140976EAF437D05B5
E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise Release' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.