NFS Mount Issues

[doozy]

Hi All,

I’ve just installed Linux retropie 3.18.11-v7+ and I have configured it store the roms on the my home server using NFS shares. I have mounted an NFS share directly onto ~/RetroPie/roms using /etc/fstab.

The problem I have is that the NFS shares don’t mount when the system boots. I guess its because it tries to mount before the network is ready?

If I quit my emulationstation front end and issue a “sudo mount -a” everything mounts fine and I can run emulationstation and play games etc.

I edited /usr/bin/emulationstation and added a “sudo mount -a” at the beginning. This does not help when the device first boots, the mounting still doesn’t happen. However, if I quit emulationstation and reload it everything mounts fine.

So I need some advice on how to delay the startup a little to allow time for the network to come up and everything to mount properly before emulationstation front end is launched.

any ideas or thoughts?

[same]

Hi doozy,

Had the same issue and found a post in this forum with a script made by erdnuesse member, I modified it a bit for my needs and here it goes:

Just after the #!/bin/bash in /usr/bin/emulationstation:

# Thx erdnuesse
# Set retry to the number of times you want the loop to repeat
RETRY=20

# As long as we have retries left...
if [ `mount -l -t nfs | wc -l` -eq 0 ]; then 
    while [ $RETRY -gt 0 ]; do
        # This will become true if 'ping' gets a response
        # Modify the following IP with your server address
        if ping -c 1 -W 1 192.168.1.7 > /dev/null ; then
	    echo "Mounting NFS Shares..."
            sudo mount -a -t nfs
	    RETRY=0
        else
            # Wait for 1 second 
            sleep 1
            RETRY=$((RETRY - 1))
            if [ $RETRY -eq 0 ]; then
                echo "[ERROR] NFS Failed to mount: server sent no response to ping."
            fi
        fi
    done
else
    echo "Note: NFS Shares already mounted."
fi

Hope it helps !

[same]

I just edited my previous post, as I had troubles to get the backticks appearing in the code block, I also misplaced one…

Should be fixed now.

[doozy]

Spot on!

Just what I needed. One day I will learn to write scripts like that!

Cheers same

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