On 11/07/08 at 15:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > 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.
It retries once, but then exit. That's apparently not enough when 8 hungry schroot processes are running :-) > We can certainly implement this in schroot-mount using itimers, and do > some sort of loop in do_mount in the 10mount script. I'll try to come up with a patch and test it. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
