Bug#377548: Fails mounting some parts in a n-in-1 device

2014-09-29 Thread Frédéric Brière
Yes, this is an old bug. :) If anyone is interested, here's my own solution to this problem; the idea is simply to add some randomness to the interval between locking attempts. In my experience with a 4-in-1 device, the first interval is scattered enough for all attempts to go through on the

Bug#377548: Fails mounting some parts in a n-in-1 device

2011-08-13 Thread Hagen Fuchs
Hello again, I was pondering a lock-less solution and your patches seem to provide a good upgrade path towards that. Unfortunately: $ git clone git://git.katzien.de/usbmount.git Cloning into usbmount... git.katzien.de[0: 82.165.99.49]: errno=Connection timed out fatal: unable to

Bug#377548: Fails mounting some parts in a n-in-1 device

2011-08-13 Thread Hagen Fuchs
Package: usbmount Severity: normal Hello, I tested Jan's patch with a flash drive that has 12 partitions on it. The original position of the locking code just at the beginning of the add handler will usually only be able to mount 3 to 4 partitions on my machine before lockfile-create will give

Bug#377548: Fails mounting some parts in a n-in-1 device

2011-08-12 Thread Hagen Fuchs
Package: usbmount Severity: normal Hello Jan, I have just looked at #403209 and the patch proposed there seems to me to lead straight into race conditions upon finding a free mount point (see there for further reference). The problem you described sounds almost as if you had the #403209-patch

Bug#377548: Fails mounting some parts in a n-in-1 device

2011-08-12 Thread Jan Schulz
Hi, Unfortunately I'm currently without the usbmount using box, so I can't test anything. In git.katzien.de/usbmount.git (only available via git, not via webinterface) are my latest attempts to fix some bugs in and add some features to usbmount. This three commits may help with that