[Bug 44874] Re: auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot

[PeteDonnell]

I don't think this is a bug in smbfs. Since I upgraded to Dapper, my
cifs (i.e. not smbfs) mount in /etc/fstab hasn't been working on boot.
There weren't any obvious problems, no errors from the kernel, and no
hangups*, so I was a bit puzzled but didn't get around to investigating
it. The share doesn't get used very often and a simple 'sudo mount
/mnt/share' mounted it when I needed it.

Today I found this report and tried the workaround suggested, by adding
noauto to the fstab entry and putting 'mount /mnt/share' in
/etc/rc.local. This fixed the problem. It seems to me there is a general
problem with mounting network shares, not just smbfs. I've not tried
nfs.

* unlike the experiences described here with smbfs - although I'm using
Kubuntu and don't have Gnome installed, which may have affected things
since some people mentioned problems with Nautilus.

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auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874