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Guys
I'm actually using an Apple TV with a minimal Ubuntu image.

I'm having trouble with mounting my NAS share on boot. I have tested that the command works at the command line, but it doesnt seem to work in rc.local. Any thoughts?

My rc.local looks like this :

Code:
until ( ifconfig en0 ; ifconfig en1 ) 2>/dev/null | grep -q 'inet ' ; do  sleep 2

done

ping -c2 192.168.0.1   # Ping twice for the first packet

sudo -u xbmc smbmount //192.168.0.117/Public ~/nas

exit 0

Why not just put an entry in /etc/fstab?

gsgleason Wrote:Why not just put an entry in /etc/fstab?

It looks like the network isn't up prior to the entry in fstab being actioned - is there a way to work around that?

I'm seeing a "network unreachable" error displayed during boot prior to CIFS mount errors.

Seems weird you'd have interfaces called 'en0' using Linux.

I to have a minimal install of ubuntu on an ION box, and the network is certainly up in time for fstab mounts to work, though I'm using nfs instead of samba.

First things first... get rid of 'sudo -u'. It is not needed in rc.local, as it is running as root.

I would put this in rc.local:

Code:
sleep 30 && xbmc smbmount //192.168.0.117/Public ~/nas &

What it does is sleep for 30 seconds before trying to mount. That way everything is initialized a running before trying to mount. Once it is working you can try and lower the 'sleep' amount.

Also I do not understand why 'xbmc' is in there, but if it works on the command line then it should work here.

Jerry

jawilljr Wrote:First things first... get rid of 'sudo -u'. It is not needed in rc.local, as it is running as root.

I would put this in rc.local:

Code:
sleep 30 && xbmc smbmount //192.168.0.117/Public ~/nas &

What it does is sleep for 30 seconds before trying to mount. That way everything is initialized a running before trying to mount. Once it is working you can try and lower the 'sleep' amount.

Also I do not understand why 'xbmc' is in there, but if it works on the command line then it should work here.

Jerry

Also, since this is running as root, ~/nas is going to be /root/nas. Is that what you want? Maybe use the full path instead, if not.

Thanks guys.

I understand from the developer of the image that rc.local doesn't actually run at start up!

Is there a way to make it run at start up? If so I'll try the suggestions.

frumpy_uk Wrote:Thanks guys.

I understand from the developer of the image that rc.local doesn't actually run at start up!

Is there a way to make it run at start up? If so I'll try the suggestions.

that's weird, esp for a minimal ubuntu image.

It should start via a symlink in /etc/rc2.d/

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$ ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S99rc.local 

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-06-03 13:07 /etc/rc2.d/S99rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local

Do you have that?

gsgleason Wrote:Also, since this is running as root, ~/nas is going to be /root/nas. Is that what you want? Maybe use the full path instead, if not.

Oops I missed that... that probably should be changed to '/home/user/nas'. Of course change 'user' to whatever the user is.

Jerry

Thanks so far.

In order to rule out other stuff, I'm trying to just get the mount command verified.

So I now have in rc.local

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smbmount //192.168.0.117/Public /home/xbmc/nas

If I run rc.local from the command line I get

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mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUI

But if I sudo /etc/rc.local it works. So we're getting somewhere.

@gsgleason: here's the output

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xbmc@AppleTV:~/nas$ ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S99rc.local

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-06-07 18:36 /etc/rc2.d/S99rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local

And this makes me wonder - am I editing the correct file...? I'm editing /etc/rc.local

Try my 'sleep 30' trick... it won't hurt.

Code:
sleep 30 && smbmount //192.168.0.117/Public /home/xbmc/nas &

Jerry

Yes, the file is /etc/rc.local.

Normally it looks like this:

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#!/bin/sh -e

#

# rc.local

#

# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.

# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other

# value on error.

#

# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution

# bits.

#

# By default this script does nothing.

exit 0

So, add the shebang.

rc.local is very picky. Every command must work well. To test if it's even working at all, try commenting out everything you have, and add this:
echo "it works" > /tmp/test

And reboot. Then, see if that file exists with that text.

gsgleason Wrote:Yes, the file is /etc/rc.local.

Normally it looks like this:

Code:
!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. exit 0

So, add the shebang.

rc.local is very picky. Every command must work well. To test if it's even working at all, try commenting out everything you have, and add this:
echo "it works" > /tmp/test

And reboot. Then, see if that file exists with that text.

On my rc.local the

Code:
!/bin/sh -e

is commented out. Should I uncomment it?

frumpy_uk Wrote:On my rc.local the
Code:
!/bin/sh -e
is commented out. Should I uncomment it?

Mine was a paste error.

It should read:

Code:
#!/bin/sh -e

One more thing, are you putting the 'smbmount' before this command:

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exit 0

If you are putting it after the exit command then it will never get run.

Jerry

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