cannot create hard dependencies on mounts

[Henti Smith <henti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good day all.

I have a service that requires a disk, which is mounted via NFS.

I've used data.mount to mount the NFS as follows:

[Unit]
Description=Mount Data

[Mount]
What=192.168.60.10:/mnt/ta_data
Where=/data
Type=nfs
Options=vers=4,_netdev,auto

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and then the service is managed with mission.service:

[Unit]
Description=Mission Control
After=network.target data.mount
Wants=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=oxbotica
ExecStart=/opt/mission-bin/start-web-server.sh
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Since mission.service requires data.mount I added:

Requires=data.mount

to mission.service [Unit]

This works perfectly, except when the NFS server is not available. This does happen from time to time when the two machines are started at the same time (these are not permanently running machines), then I need the server the units are running on to wait for the NFS server.

To do this I added:

TimeoutSec=5m

to the [Mount] section.

While starting data.mount, this works correctly, as it waits for the NFS share to become available before it mounts.. However, starting mission.service without starting data.mount, it correctly requires data.mount, but mission.service executes anyway.

I'm not entirely sure why this happens.

When I disconnect the NFS share from the network and run data.mount, it gives the expected output of:

Sep 10 14:26:31 dcv1uk-mvc rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: unable to resolve 192.168.60.10 to hostname: Name or service not known
Sep 10 14:26:31 device01 rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: failed to parse nfs/clnt3f/info
Sep 10 14:26:31 device01 rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: unable to resolve 192.168.60.10 to hostname: Name or service not known
Sep 10 14:26:31 device01 rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: failed to parse nfs/clnt3f/info

until the NFS share is reconnected and then:

Sep 10 14:26:51 device01 systemd[1]: Mounted Mount GTA on Data.

When I start mission.services I get:

device01  systemd[1]: Started Mission Execution Manager.
device01  systemd[1]: missioncontrol_execution_manager.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
device01  systemd[1]: missioncontrol_execution_manager.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
device01  systemd[1]: missioncontrol_execution_manager.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
device01  systemd[1]: Stopped Mission Execution Manager.
device01  systemd[1]: missioncontrol_execution_manager.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
device01  systemd[1]: missioncontrol_execution_manager.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
device01  systemd[1]: Failed to start Mission Execution Manager.
device01  rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: unable to resolve 192.168.60.10 to hostname: Name or service not known
device01  rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: failed to parse nfs/clnt51/info
device01  rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: unable to resolve 192.168.60.10 to hostname: Name or service not known
device01  rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: failed to parse nfs/clnt52/info
device01  rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: unable to resolve 192.168.60.10 to hostname: Name or service not known
device01  rpc.gssd[1081]: ERROR: failed to parse nfs/clnt53/info

Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work ?

Kind regards

Henti