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On 05/05/17 15:42, Julian Hall wrote: > > Update on the permissions/NFS issues. The permissions /seem/ to be > fixed, inasmuch as I did a search on the NAS for *.doc and *.xls files > and opened a file from each folder and they all opened normally. I tend > to save in those formats as I never know when I will need to share with > a WIndows user. > > The NFS issue on the other hand is misbehaving more. In the last two > days the box has decided not to boot if the NAS is not powered up, > despite it supposedly only mounting on first access. If the NAS isn't > powered the box hangs, either before the desktop background picture come > up but with mouse, or on one occasion even before that with just the > mouse. Any reboot attempt says nemo is not responding. > > First port of call I suppose is to comment the NAS out of fstab and see > if it boots faster? Undoubtedly it will as it only has to look for /home > then. Righty, let's get this finished up then. As usual some issues are getting conflated again and I'm not sure I follow you when you say the "permissions seem to be fixed", especially on the NAS. I've got no idea what you've done in the meanwhile of course but last time we had only fixed up some local test copies of a bunch of files as a proof of concept without touching any files on the NAS or even looking at the NFS mess yet. So if files on the NAS are behaving differently now from when they were it's a coincidence unless you've made some changes as well! Your current NFS issues are going to be the cause of the file permission symptoms you've been having for sure. When permissions are wrong in *nix land things tend to go very wrong because they are a pretty fundamental basis of the entire system. You are going to have to fix the major NFS issue first though obviously if it's at the point where your system no longer reliably boots - you are right about this, and need to comment out the fstab line to mount the NFS share asap. Your system is indeed attempting to mount the NFS share during boot every time and systemd is timing out waiting for the filesystem (it doesn't handle this very well for some reason). You also didn't say what make/model your actual NAS unit is and if you've got shell access to it. Do you have to admin it through a point and click web interface thing? First comment out the fstab line, reboot to make sure it's cleared that problem and get back. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq