On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:15:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 04/07/08 at 00:07 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I'm using file chroots. > > It seems that this is caused by mount failing to lock /etc/mtab (because > another build process is already mounting an FS). mount > returns 16 in that case according to mount(8). I think that it would > make sense to retry mounting once or twice in that case. > > This occured 6 times during my full archive rebuild today.
That's annoying! Ideally, mount(8) should wait on the lock for a bit rather than failing immediately. We can certainly implement this in schroot-mount using itimers, and do some sort of loop in do_mount in the 10mount script. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
