[Samba] update to cifs-mount-3.2.0-24.1.122 from .121 broke mount.cifs [.123 is still broken]

[David C. Rankin]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> David C. Rankin wrote:
>>> David C. Rankin wrote:
>>>> Jerry, Jeremy, et. al.
>>>>
>>>>     Last night's upgrade from cifs-mount-3.2.0-24.1.121 to 
>>>> cifs-mount-3.2.0-24.1.122 on a openSuSE 10.3 x86_64 machine broke 
>>>> mount -t cifs. Now attempting to mount shares results in the following:
>>>>
>>>> 11:10 alchemy/home/david/bin] # mount.cifs -v //nirvana/david 
>>>> /mnt/nirvana-david -o username=david,uid=1000,password=notmypass
>>>> parsing options: username=david,uid=1000,password=notmypass
>>>>
>>>> Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
>>>> No ip address specified and hostname not found
>>>>
>>>> Huh?
>>>>
>>>> Can I get .121 back?
>>>>
>>>>     This is purely a client issue. Nothing is showing in the server 
>>>> logs with log level = 10. Client only has entries in 
>>>> /var/log/messages showing that  the mount command was entered:
>>>>
>>>> Jul  3 10:51:46 alchemy sudo:    david : TTY=pts/1 ; 
>>>> PWD=/home/david/bin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/mount.cifs -v 
>>>> //nirvana/david /mnt/nirvana-david -o 
>>>> username=david,uid=1000,password=notmypass
>>>>
>>>>     Help. Let me know what else I can send and I'll be happy to do 
>>>> it. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>>     I did a downgrade to the latest in openSuSE/update (3.0.26a) and 
>>> all works as it should. It's confirmed, whatever changes were made to 
>>> cifs-mount-3.2.0-24.1.122 broke it.
>>>
>>>     Let me know if I can send anything else.
>>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if this was fixed in the .123 release?
>>
> 
> Yes, David,
> 
>     Now that you mention it, I have the answer! I installed:
> 
> cifs-mount-3.2.0-24.1.123
> samba-winbind-32bit-3.2.0-24.1.123
> samba-3.2.0-24.1.123
> samba-32bit-3.2.0-24.1.123
> samba-client-3.2.0-24.1.123
> samba-client-32bit-3.2.0-24.1.123
> 
> and cifs is still broken. Upon install all of the Linux-to-Linux cifs 
> mounts immediately fail and cannot be remounted until all samba/cifs 
> packages are downgraded to the only available openSuSE alternative of 
> 3.0.26a--bummer.
> 
>     Am I the only one affected by this??? Is there a workaround? Can I 
> check/send anything else to help fix this?
> 
> 

I have confirmed the issue with others on the openSuSE list. For those 
interested, a bug was filed with Novell:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408624


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