From: JimDiamond@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   Hi Mike,   
      
   I admire your ability to find weird things.  :-)   
   See below.   
      
   On 2023-02-16 at 20:34 AST, Mike Spencer  wrote:   
   >   
   > Henrik Carlqvist  writes:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:01:41 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I have to become root to umount it.   
   >>   
   >> I can't say why it doesn't work to umount nfs drives mounted with the   
   >> user option.   
   >   
   > Brain damage due to the morass of fulminating complexity.   
   >   
   >   
   > In 14.2 and before, mounts were recorded in /etc/mtab.  In that file,   
   > a user-mounted f/s was tagged with the uname of the user who mounted   
   > it.   
   >   
   > Bogus is a 14.2 system:   
   >   
   >    bogus% mount /mnt/enoch   
   >    bogus% grep enoch /etc/mtab   
   >   
   >       enoch:/ /mnt/enoch nfs rw,user=mds,hard,intr,addr=192.168.0.22 0 0   
   >   
   > But in 15, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts   
      
   Not on my Slackware64 15.0 system:   
      
   % ls -l /etc/mtab   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 Feb 18 15:57 /etc/mtab   
      
   > and no user info associated with the user who mounted the f/s is   
   > there.   
      
   While I don't currently use NFS, there are a couple of lines in my   
   /etc/mtab with user=.   
      
   Are you by any chance using some desktop environment which has decided   
   it knows better than you, and has done some strange things?   
      
   If you do a clean reboot, before attempting to mount anything, is   
   /etc/mtab a symlink or a real file?   
      
   And if it is a symlink, I wonder if booting from a USB stick, mounting   
   the / partition, deleting the symlink, and rebooting would show   
   anything.   
      
   Good luck.   
                                   Jim   
      
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