[Bug 1130781] Re: Can't mount samba share with krb/multiuser at bootup in fstab

[Steve Langasek]

> I'm not sure if it doesn't auto-mount due to clock skew or not,

Well, this is exactly the diagnosis given in the message you linked to.
So if it's clock skew, it must be a bad system clock, or a bad clock
value in your BIOS clock.

> if I login and manually mount at as root, then it works fine.

That's not surprising, if the clock is being set from NTP immediately
afterwards.  This could happen because the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
script which sets the clock also does this in the background, so if you
have a bad system clock and are getting the time from the network,
there's a race condition and the clock may not yet be set by the time
the attempt is made to mount the share.

> It's hard for me to troubleshoot this now as I was trying this in
> February & it is now October.  This machine has long ago been rebuilt.

I take this to mean that you're no longer able to reproduce the problem.
The contents of the ntp package do certainly indicate a race condition,
so there's a real bug; but without further information about why this
was causing problems for you specifically, the theory is that this only
happens with a broken BIOS clock, so is a low priority to fix.

** Package changed: mountall (Ubuntu) => ntp (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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