On 19/06/2021 19:22, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2021-06-19 at 11:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I removed the WantedBy=multi-user.target from the mount unit. I then did a daemon-reload. I noted that there were 2 broken syslinks associated with the mounts in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants so I deleted them. I then rebooted.
AFAIK anything in the [Install] section is only processed statically by the 'enable' and 'disable' actions, i.e. not at runtime. That being the case, I don't see how the unit is ever going to be activated, but I admit that my understanding of all this is hazy at best.
Well, all I know at the moment is the VM's work, the bare metal system doesn't.
The other weird thing I can't explain is that I see the follwing line in the journal at the boot time before any user logs in.
Jun 20 06:42:16 meimei.greshko.com systemd[1]: aux.automount: Got automount request for /aux, triggered by 2344 (daemon-init) Jun 20 06:42:16 meimei.greshko.com systemd[1]: Mounting nfs mount aux...
I think this will remain an unsolved mystery.