#975003 mount refuses to mount cifs from fstab with Unknown mount option "symfollow"

Package:
cifs-utils
Source:
cifs-utils
Description:
Common Internet File System utilities
Submitter:
mc36
Date:
2020-11-29 19:12:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#975003#5
Date:
2020-11-17 19:57:51 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

i rebooted my sid today and noticed that my cifs mounts from fstab not came up.
dmesg indicates " Unknown mount option "symfollow" ".
manually mounting them (sudo mount.cifs //mount /point -o opts) did the trick.
nevertheless to note that it's the first time this happened.

[   50.143880] CIFS: Attempting to mount //devel.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
[   50.143902] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
[   50.146561] CIFS: Attempting to mount //nas.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
[   50.146578] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
#975003#10
Date:
2020-11-17 22:00:47 UTC
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Reassigning to cifs-utils, as mount.cifs probably needs updating for
this.

* mc36 <mc36@freemail.hu> [201117 21:09]:
#975003#19
Date:
2020-11-20 01:13:06 UTC
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I think this has been reported and fixed in util-linux:
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1193
Updating Fedora to the util-linux with that fix backported seems to fix
the issue for me.
#975003#24
Date:
2020-11-23 09:28:12 UTC
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To:
Hello.

Older versions of binary packages:

https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/libmount1/
https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/mount/

It works for me and davfs. For autofs/cifs have to reboot probably.

Regards,

JK