On 14 May 2003, Philip A. Chapman wrote: > > Any reasons why 'Mounting SMB Shares' hangs forever when I'm booting up? > > What I'm doing now is comment all SMB shares out of /etc/fstab so I can > > actually boot, then uncomment the lines and issue a 'mount -a' which > > works instantly. It's a known bug. > ... > Entries in fstab are mounted *before* networking is brought up. True, but it doesn't attempt to mount network filesystems. (from rc.sysinit:) action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs -O no_netdev > This can cause the boot to hang if your fstab is set up to mount smb > shares automatically without telling it that the entries are for network > shares. Sounds like this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89197 David.
