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Re: [LUG] Hate computers. Hate systemd. [Was Re: Hate computers. Hate HP. Hate USB.

 

On 06/11/2021 16:36, comrade meowski wrote:
On 06/11/2021 12:12, Julian Hall wrote:

Completely lost now. That's why I asked if there is a file that may be corrupt somewhere that tells a remote share who the owner is.

Julian


Ha this is the problem that just won't die...
It is the gift that keeps on giving..

Let's have one last look at this then, we probably all want to know how this ends after all these months. Rather than blindly give you instructions to fix it with the chmod hammer let's find out exactly what's going on.

Let's find out who you are and what your UID/GID is:

id
julian@Cerce:~$ id
uid=1000(julian) gid=1000(julian) groups=1000(julian),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),114(lpadmin),134(sambashare)

Better have a look at fstab again:

cat /etc/fstab
julian@Cerce:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type> <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=8d9120a6-d4c7-4bd2-80a3-797b2db43287 /               ext4 errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=792a3ecb-d6fa-49d5-8f51-787a2befdeb0 /home           ext4 defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=dadfb6ff-cfe6-4e5d-8af8-62054e95d042 none            swap sw              0       0 192.168.1.3:/volume1/DEMETER    /media/julian/DEMETER   nfs _netdev,auto,users,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=10,timeo=14,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min 0   0
And because we all think it's permissions problems, let's check the directory listings:

ls -alh /path/to/your/nfs/mount

Assuming you mean the mount point not the actual mount, as it cannot find that:

julian@Cerce:~$ ls -alh /media/julian/DEMETER
ls: cannot open directory '/media/julian/DEMETER': Permission denied
julian@Cerce:~$ sudo ls -alh /media/julian/DEMETER
[sudo] password for julian:
total 232M
drwxrwxrwx 44 root   root   4.0K Sep  3 19:56  .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root   4.0K Oct 25 16:49  ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Jul 16  2017 'Android APKs'
drwxrwxrwx  3 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'Android update'
drwxrwxrwx  5 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Audio
drwxrwxrwx 62 julian julian  12K Feb 27  2021 'Barry At War'
drwxrwxrwx  4 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'BBC Articles'
drwxrwxrwx 10 julian julian 4.0K Feb  8  2019 'Birmingham University'
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian  23K Jul 17  2017  Bond.xls
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Car
drwxrwxrwx 13 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'Cardiff Met'
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'Causes of War'
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian 134K Jul 17  2017  Cdlabel.alb
drwxrwxrwx  3 julian julian 4.0K Feb 27  2021  Colour
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian 2.2K Jul 17  2017  Danish.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian   77 Jul 17  2017  desktop.ini
drwxrwxrwx 10 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Download
drwxrwxrwx  4 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  DVD2
drwxr-xr-x  6 julian julian 4.0K Mar 27  2018 facebook-julianmhallwales
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian 196M Mar 27  2018 facebook-julianmhallwales.zip
drwxrwxrwx 16 julian julian 4.0K Apr  4  2021  Family
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  FFs
drwxrwxrwx 13 julian julian 4.0K Feb 27  2021  Finances
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian  857 Jul 17  2017  foxuser.dbf
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian 4.5K Jul 17  2017  foxuser.fpt
drwxrwsrwx  6 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'Game Saves'
drwxrwsrwx 16 julian julian 4.0K Apr  1  2020  Genealogy
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'Glamorgan University'
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian   24 Jul 17  2017  GoDaddy.txt
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian 4.3K Jul 17  2017  gparted_details.htm
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian 780K Jul 17  2017 Greenlinks-Membership-Form-English-Ffurflen-Ymaelodi-Saesneg-18.01.2017.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian 161K Jul 17  2017  hellados.tpp
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian   37 Jul 17  2017  Heredis.txt
drwxrwsrwx 12 julian julian 4.0K Jan  8  2021 'History Research'
drwxrwsrwx 15 julian julian 4.0K Jan 21  2021  Installers
drwxrwxrwx  6 julian julian 4.0K May 10  2019  IPCAM
-rwxrwxrwx  1   1026 users  767K Jan  4  2018 'Julian Hall - Bath Seat.jpg'
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'Linux Books'
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Apr 14  2021  Misc
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Jul 31  2020 'Panels Claim'
drwxrwsrwx  5 julian julian 4.0K Sep 11  2018  PDF
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Dec  8  2017  PhD
-rw-r--r--  1 julian julian  54K Jul 18  2017 'proof of postage.jpeg'
drwxrwxrwx  4 julian julian 4.0K Dec 21  2018 'Property Damage'
drwxrwxrwx  2 root   root   4.0K Sep  3 19:55 '#recycle'
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian 1.2K Jul 17  2017 'Reinstall List.txt'
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Feb 25  2018 'Rio Tinto'
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian  516 Jul 17  2017  rsync.txt
-rw-rw-rw-  1 julian julian 5.5M Jul 25  2016  S0040191.JPG
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian 125K Jul 17  2017  SAFlashPlayer.app
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  SanDiskSecureAccess
drwxrwxrwx  5 julian julian 4.0K Oct  3  2020  Security
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian 7.3K Jul 17  2017  SIM071215.tel
-rwxrwxrwx  1   1026 users   28M Apr 27  2018 Skype-com.skype.raider-84357886-v5.7.0.13054.apk
-rwxrwxrwx  1 julian julian 147K Dec 14  2015 'Sofia Family Tree.jpg'
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Mar  2  2021  Spreadsheets
-rw-r--r--  1   1024 users  1.5K Sep  3 19:56 Synology_PermissionReport_20210903-195614.csv
drwxrwxrwx  5 julian julian 4.0K Sep 11  2018  .Trash-1000
drwxrwsrwx  7 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Twitter
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017 'UFO Incidents'
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Warhammer
drwxrwsrwx  7 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Websites
drwxrwxrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Apr 14  2021  Wheelchairs
drwxrwsrwx  6 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  Word
drwxrwsrwx  2 julian julian 4.0K Oct  5  2017  WotW



I like logs:

journalctl -b | grep -i mount
julian@Cerce:~$ journalctl -b | grep -i /media/julian/DEMETER
Nov 07 09:51:02 Cerce systemd[1]: Mounting /media/julian/DEMETER...
Nov 07 09:51:02 Cerce systemd[1]: Failed to mount /media/julian/DEMETER.
Nov 07 09:51:10 Cerce systemd[1]: media-julian-DEMETER.automount: Got automount request for /media/julian/DEMETER, triggered by 1418 (pool)
Nov 07 09:51:10 Cerce systemd[1]: Mounting /media/julian/DEMETER...
Nov 07 09:51:10 Cerce systemd[1]: Mounted /media/julian/DEMETER.
Nov 07 09:52:32 Cerce systemd[1]: Unmounting /media/julian/DEMETER...
Nov 07 09:52:32 Cerce systemd[1]: Unmounted /media/julian/DEMETER.
Nov 07 11:18:51 Cerce systemd[1]: media-julian-DEMETER.automount: Got automount request for /media/julian/DEMETER, triggered by 4856 (ls)
Nov 07 11:18:51 Cerce systemd[1]: Mounting /media/julian/DEMETER...
Nov 07 11:18:51 Cerce systemd[1]: Mounted /media/julian/DEMETER.
Nov 07 11:19:11 Cerce sudo[4882]:   julian : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/julian ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/ls -alh /media/julian/DEMETER
Nov 07 11:20:12 Cerce systemd[1]: Unmounting /media/julian/DEMETER...
Nov 07 11:20:12 Cerce systemd[1]: Unmounted /media/julian/DEMETER.

Also if I remember rightly from talking about this before you found an option on the Synology NAS to switch from NFS3 to NFS4 right? I'd flip that on as well just because.

You _could_ just sledgehammer fix this with a brutal chmod -R /mnt/point at any time but I wouldn't recommend it.

Kind regards,

Julian

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