Comment 19 for bug 243298

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 15 May 2011, at 10:43, Markus <email address hidden> wrote:

> Still not working on Natty without fsname
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - In hardy, sshfs /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab do not match, umount and
> unmount through "Disk Mounter" applet do not work
> + sshfs /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab do not match, umount and unmount
> through "Disk Mounter" applet / Nautilus do not work
>
> ** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/natty/sshfs-fuse
>
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> Title:
>  sshfs /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab do not match, umount and unmount
>  through "Disk Mounter" applet / Nautilus do not work
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in “sshfs-fuse” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  In hardy heron, a fuse based sshfs mount that is mounted through
>  /etc/fstab does NOT match its corresponding entry in /etc/mtab.
>
>  I am filing this as a bug, because it breaks a number of standard
>  ubuntu/gnome/debian/linux utilities, including umount and the unmount
>  capability of the "Disk Mounter" applet.
>
>  For example, this line in /etc/fstab:
>
>  sshfs#username@ubuntusshserver:/home/username
>  /home/username/mnt/sshfs/ubuntusshserver/username       fuse
>  comment
> =
> sshfs
> ,users
> ,exec
> ,nodev
> ,nosuid
> ,rw
> ,nosuid
> ,noauto
> ,uid
> =
> 1000
> ,gid
> =1000,allow_other,reconnect,transform_symlinks,port=22,BatchMode=yes
>  0       0
>
>  results in this line in /etc/mtab (when this mount point is mounted):
>
>  username@ubuntusshserver:/home/username
>  /home/username/mnt/sshfs/ubuntusshserver/username fuse.sshfs
>  rw,nosuid,nodev,max_read=65536,allow_other,user=username 0 0
>
>  The line mentioned for /etc/fstab allows me to easily mount the sshfs
>  mount point from mount or the "Disk Mounter" applet with no problems,
>  but breaks umount and "Disk Mounter" for unmounting.  "fusermount -u"
>  or "fusermount -u -z" still work.
>
>  Running the following line to use sed to edit /etc/mtab to correct
> the
>  problem after a mount results in desired behavior, and verifies that
>  this problem is a bug:
>
>  sudo sed 's/\(^[^@]\{1,\}@\)\(.\{1,\}\) fuse\.sshfs /sshfs#\1\2 fuse
>  /' -i /etc/mtab
>
>  This line is, of course, a workaround for the bug, and requires su
>  privileges to run, so it is NOT a solution.
>
>  The source package for this bug should be sshfs-fuse 1.9-1.  The
>  binary package is sshfs.  I believe that this behavior did not exist
>  in fiesty fawn, and cannot tell you if it existed in gutsy gibbon.  I
>  am almost sure that this is new to hardy heron, so it is probably a
>  design change that resulted in some bugs.  I also believe that this
>  bug is the true cause of bug#152978 (see
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/152978/comments/11)
>
>  Here are the results from 'lsb_release -rd':
>  Description: Ubuntu 8.04
>  Release: 8.04
>
>  Here are the results from 'apt-cache policy sshfs':
>  apt-cache policy sshfs
>  sshfs:
>    Installed: 1.9-1
>    Candidate: 1.9-1
>    Version table:
>   *** 1.9-1 0
>          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>  Here is my kernel from 'uname -a':
>  Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:15:37 UTC 2008
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>  WORKAROUND to mount using /etc/fstab:
>
>  sshfs#<email address hidden>:/home/user /mnt/sshdisk fuse
>  user,noauto,fsname=sshfs#<email address hidden>:/home/user 0 0
>
>  (this is supposed to be one line in fstab)