Minor problems using extra/wicd in 12.2

TSquaredF · 12-12-2008, 11:37 AM

Last night I upgraded my desktop to 12.2 & decided to use wicd to manage networking. I followed the README & moved /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf.new to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf & didn't add anything to it. Did the same for rc.wireless, though this box has no wireless & it looks like I can't upgrade my laptop because of the madwifi drivers. The problem is that I have a cifs share in my fstab that is not getting mounted at boot time. I think the share is supposed to get mounted at line 101 in rc.M with the command

Code:

mount -a -v 2> /dev/null | grep -v "already mounted"

This is right after the commands that start rc.inet1 & rc.inet2. wicd is not started until line 170 in rc.M. I'm wondering if it makes any difference if I move the lines that start wicd up above the mount line, or should I move the mount line below the wicd code?
After the system is booted it just takes a

Code:

mount /mnt/mountpoint

to mount the share, so it mounts fine, just not automagically, when it should.
[Edit] It makes no difference whatsoever how the line are moved around in rc.M, the share does not get mounted because of an "unavailable network". I am now calling a script to mount the share from my rc.local & that works OK, but I would like to know how to do this from /etc/fstab.[/Edit]
Regards,
Bill

niels.horn · 12-13-2008, 09:07 PM

Are there any messages in /var/log/messages about the failed mount?

How is the mount defined in your /etc/fstab?

slackass · 12-13-2008, 09:53 PM

I'm no expert on this stuff but all I did to get my wireless working is installed wicd with slackpkg and it detected my wireless and wired and set it up for me.
However:
You do have to set up encryption afterwards.

EDIT:
On one of my boxes I installed wicd from extra and it did not work right.
I then reinstalled it with slackpkg (with my wireless running unsecured) and then it detected it..

rworkman · 12-14-2008, 02:34 AM

Here's the deal:
1. Wicd requires dbus.
2. Dbus requires the /usr filesystem.
3. /usr might require networking.
See the problem?

Long story short, we can't start wicd until after dbus.
We can't start dbus until after we *know* /usr is mounted.

Probably the best way to handle this is to stick a "mount -a" in rc.local.

TSquaredF · 12-14-2008, 03:01 PM

Thanks for the replies. Since I posted this, I have had a few nits caused by upgrading a 12.1 installation that had GSlacky installed to 12.2. Yesterday I backed everything up & did a fresh install of 12.2. I did not set up networking during the install & after I installed wicd, I went into /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 & commented out the lines to mount nfs, cifs & smbfs shares, just to keep errors from popping up at boot time. I copied the lines concerning cifs shares into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However, I still got "error 101: network not found". Since the mount command worked OK after the desktop was up, I thought that wicd just needed a bit more time, so moved it to the end of rc.local & inserted a "sleep 10" command. That got my share mounted. I shaved seconds off the sleep command & when I got to 4, the share would no longer mount. Now I am at "sleep 5" & all is well. As I add other things to rc.local, I will put them before the mount command & can probably shave more seconds off the sleep; when I had upgraded, I didn't need it at all. I personally prefer wicd to the traditional Slackware networking tools, not that I can't use them, but wicd just seems more intuitive, particularly for wireless.
Regards,
Bill

mRgOBLIN · 12-14-2008, 05:01 PM

Put something like this in rc.local and you won't need to wait for a fixed time.
(replace the IP address with your gateway/router/NFS server address)

Code:

for dot in $(seq 10); do
        echo -n "."
        ping -c1 192.168.1.254 &>/dev/null
        exstat=$?
        if [ ${exstat} -eq 0 ]; then
                break
        fi
done

if [ ${exstat} -eq 0 ]; then
        echo " Network is up!"
        mount -a -v 2> /dev/null | grep -v "already mounted"
else
        echo " Network failed to connect!"
fi

TSquaredF · 12-14-2008, 06:08 PM

mRgOBLIN: Thanks for the script. I have one which tests whether the cifs share is mounted & warns me if not. I wasn't sure how to check the existence of the network, so just tested whether the share was in mtab. This will integrate into that script nicely & do both jobs. Thanks again.
Regards,
Bill