Bug 14833

If you mount up this directory using CIFS without AUFS in the picture, does the problem still occur?

(In reply to comment #1)
> If you mount up this directory using CIFS without AUFS in the picture, does
> the
> problem still occur?

There are no such effect after mount neither cifs nor aufs. Duplicated directories does not appear within initrd stage at all, but there are other error like "usermod: command not found" that point out that there are something wrong with file system. It need more deep investigation.

I'm so(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > If you mount up this directory using CIFS without AUFS in the picture, does
> the
> > problem still occur?
> 
> There are no such effect after mount neither cifs nor aufs.

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what you tested here. Are you saying that you don't see this problem when you just mount a plain CIFS share? Or does the problem only occur at particular times?

I'm a little confused as to what sort of filesystem layout you're using here as well (i.e. what sort of filesystems are mounted in what locations).

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what you tested here.

Testing environment described in previous bug "cifs crash":

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14641

You have take part in that discussion: it is debian live project in netboot variant. That is cifs is used as root fs to boot system.

Right...and if I understand correctly, in that setup you're using CIFS as one of the AUFS layers.

The question I had was, if you mount up this share as a plain CIFS share (i.e. without AUFS) do you also see these duplicated directories. It wasn't clear to me whether you had done this and if so, what the result was.

I don't do nothing. All work is done by initrd and init scripts at boot time. What I am doing is debugging. In this case I have turned on debug mode (that is set -x -v shell option) and insert ls / command after two mount commannds (cifs and aufs). In both cases I don't see duplicated directories.

I have add "ls /" command after every script in /etc/rcS.d directory and turned on bootlogd. I see duplicated directories in console, but not in log file. It is very strange. That is why I don't see them at initrd stage: the output was done into log.

I suspect that this problem is actually the same as the one in bug 15088. Could you try adding "noserverino" to the mount options and see if this is still reproducible?

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:00:59PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> --- Comment #8 from Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>  2010-01-31 12:00:58 ---
> I suspect that this problem is actually the same as the one in bug 15088.
> Could
> you try adding "noserverino" to the mount options and see if this is still
> reproducible?

I will do this tomorrow. Wait.
 
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:00:59PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> --- Comment #8 from Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>  2010-01-31 12:00:58 ---
> I suspect that this problem is actually the same as the one in bug 15088.
> Could
> you try adding "noserverino" to the mount options and see if this is still
> reproducible?

Done. It has no effect. No ideas.

I have placed break points after cifs and aufs mounts (inserting
"/bin/sh -i" line) - there are no duplicated directories. The problem
arise somewhere later in the initrd, but not in the init scripts,
because it exists even with init=/bin/bash kernel command line
parameter.

Something mysterious. I think, we need help from debian-live developers,
but they don't replay

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:39:24PM +0300, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote:

 
> Something mysterious. I think, we need help from debian-live developers,
> but they don't replay
                 ^^^^^^

Sorry, I mean "they don't reply".