Fusermount error on running rclone mount

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Im trying to mount but I keep getting an error, Ive looked around but cant find a solution

Im running

rclone mount a9:downloads/done /home/a9/www/mount

and the error is

2019/01/24 02:16:21 mount helper error: fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first
2019/01/24 02:16:21 Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1

I run modprobe fuse and it gives this error

modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:514 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab134.8/modules.builtin.bin'
modprobe: FATAL: Module fuse not found in directory /lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab134.8

Im on Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS and I installed rclone with the install.sh script

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You might need to apt install fuse?

3

thanks for the reply. I had already ran it prior to making this post and it was already installed

fuse is already the newest version (2.9.4-1ubuntu3.1)

And running which fusermount says it in /bin/fusermount

Also a note is that the error in the first post happens on both a user account and root user.

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Do you have libfuse installed as well? The error is that it’s missing from your OS:

libfuse2/stable,now 2.9.7-1+deb9u2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  Filesystem in Userspace (library)
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I believe it is, I ran apt install libfuse2 and got this
libfuse2 is already the newest version (2.9.4-1ubuntu3.1)

6

Is fuse loaded?

felix@gemini:~$ ls -al /dev/fuse
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 229 Jan 21 13:28 /dev/fuse
felix@gemini:~$ lsmod | grep fuse
fuse                   98304  5

To load:

root@gemini:~ modprobe fuse
root@gemini:~
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The loading seems to be the issue, I had initially tried to but I get the same error on root and normal user.

root@syn:~# ls -al /dev/fuse
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 229 Jan 24 16:49 /dev/fuse
root@syn:~# lsmod | grep fuse
root@syn:~# modprobe fuse
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:514 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab134.8/modules.builtin.bin'
modprobe: FATAL: Module fuse not found in directory /lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab134.8

Could the issue be due to the vps being run under OpenVZ? When I first got it I ran in to a small error with a program and upon looking it up it had to do with the underlying kernel not supporting whatever trying to install. The kernel is 2.6.32-042stab134.8

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It seems like the module it’s looking for is missing.

You could always try to remove it and re-add it back in.

So like and apt remove fuse* libfuse*

and re-add them back in and see if the module is there.

If the modprobe command won’t load it, rclone won’t function without fuse.

I’m not familiar with OpenVZ unfortunately.

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Yes. Even after you install fuse and libfuse you need to open a ticket and ask your server provider to enable fuse module on your vps. It’s 1 minute work for them and most companies allows fuse module.

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