[X2Go-User] Remote folder mounting fails sometimes

Michael DePaulo mikedep333 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 15:07:06 CET 2014


Whoops, should have sent this to the list.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll try to investigate it over the next 2 days.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Emanuele Marra
> <marraemanuele at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the help.
>> I'm using windows 7 64 bit, but I have the same issue on other machines with
>> windows xp installed.
>> I think what happens is this:
>> I start the client a first time, the folder doesn't get mounted. Now, on the
>> remote machine runs a company software which writes to the mounted folder,
>> since the folder is not there the software creates the folder structure. On
>> the next time the client is opened, it tries to mount the directory and that
>> error comes out since the mount point is not empty.
>> So my guess is sometimes at session startup the mounting fails. I also see
>> this in the mounts.log:
>>
>> read: Connection reset by peer
>>
>> Any idea why this happens? Thanks again
>>
>>
>> 2014-02-20 16:01 GMT+01:00 Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I think this is a known issue that only affects certain versions of
>>> windows. What version of windows are you running? E.g.windows 7 64-bit pro
>>> sp1
>>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2014 3:56 AM, "Emanuele Marra" <marraemanuele at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I configured a shared folder with my x2go Windows client. I noticed that
>>>> sometimes the mount doesn't work and I get this error in mounts.log:
>>>>
>>>> fuse: mountpoint is not empty
>>>> fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
>>>>
>>>> to solve the issue I have to run this commands:
>>>>
>>>> fusermount -z -u /tmp/.x2go-USER_NAME/media/disk/_cygdrive_FOLDER
>>>> sudo rm -R -f /tmp/.x2go-USER_NAME/media/disk/_cygdrive_FOLDER
>>>>
>>>> and restart.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea why this happens and how to prevent it?
>>>>
>>>> Could be a solution to insert the -nonempty option in the mount command,
>>>> where I can find this in the scripts?
>>>>
>>>> I'm a beginner with x2go and I'm not an expert with linux either. Thanks
>>>> in advance for your help.
>>>>
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