Unable to mount webdav resource on FreeBSD 13.1

Suspected Bug
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Dear All,

since version 1.57.0-DEV onf FreeBSD I notice that RCLONE became unable to mount a WebDav resource locally.

With the newer version 1.58 e the latest release of FreeBSD: 13.1 the situation hasn't changed or fixed.

Maybe this is not a bug but rather a new feature that requires an additional package to mount the webdav resource (fuse?), checking at the output from the working version:

And the not working version:

Looks exactly the same.

Therefore I could't find any hint to try to troubleshoot this "bug" better.

Thanks,
freezr

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I think this may be the cause of the issue: rclone does not mount on freebsd-14-current · Issue #5843 · rclone/rclone · GitHub

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Not sure, there are part that I am surely missing.

I have another FreeBSD 13.1 fresh installed were I setup properly fuse but it won't mount the resource anyway:

2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.58.1-DEV" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "-vv" "drive:" "/mnt/drive/" "--vfs-cache-mode" "writes"]
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "drive:"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/freezr/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : found headers: 
2022/05/23 09:47:44 INFO  : webdav root '': poll-interval is not supported by this remote
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : vfs cache: root is "/home/freezr/.cache/rclone"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : vfs cache: data root is "/home/freezr/.cache/rclone/vfs/drive"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : vfs cache: metadata root is "/home/freezr/.cache/rclone/vfsMeta/drive"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/home/freezr/.cache/rclone/vfs/drive/"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/home/freezr/.cache/rclone/vfsMeta/drive/"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : webdav root '': Mounting on "/mnt/drive/"
2022/05/23 09:47:44 INFO  : vfs cache: cleaned: objects 0 (was 0) in use 0, to upload 0, uploading 0, total size 0 (was 0)
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : : Root: 
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : : >Root: node=/, err=<nil>
2022/05/23 09:47:44 DEBUG : vfs cache: cleaner exiting
2022/05/23 09:47:44 ERROR : /mnt/drive/: Unmounted rclone mount
2022/05/23 09:47:44 Fatal error: failed to umount FUSE fs: resource temporarily unavailable
fish: Job 1, 'rclone mount -vv drive: /mnt/dr…' has ended

I followed this guide:

https://blog.socruel.nu/freebsd/mount-webdav-with-rclone-on-freebsd.html

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hi,
might be a good idea to testing using the official rclone client,
not a third-party custom built development version.

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That is the version available on the FreeBSD latest repo... :man_shrugging:

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yes, i understand that, but the only way to get the official rclone client is
https://rclone.org/downloads/#script-download-and-install

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Understood, thanks for explaining this detail!

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If you are able, compiling rclone with -tags cmount as indicated in the link I posted would be interesting and might fix the problem. You'd use rclone cmount instead of rclone mount.

I don't know why it isn't working - I know that the FreeBSD fuse interface is a little different from the Linux one and that has caused problems in the past.

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I tested out FreeBSD pretty recently and can't recall all the hoops, but I got it to mount.

I recall not being able to use allow other as that simply did not work. I ended up testing a regular user but based on the allow other bit, I decided to just move back to Linux as I just needed it to work.

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On one machine fuse wasn't loaded, on another machine fuse is loaded and my user is allowed to mount partition (vfs.usermount=1) but it quits.

I'll try to follow your recommendations and using cmount instead...

Thanks,

D.

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Looks like cmount is the path to follow, I'll try to compile before the version available through the ports...

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Did it work? If so can you make a note on the github issue please? rclone does not mount on freebsd-14-current · Issue #5843 · rclone/rclone · GitHub

I think the ultimate cause is fuse lib is broken on recent FreeBSD · Issue #280 · bazil/fuse · GitHub which using cmount works around as it uses a different Go->FUSE binding which uses libfuse directly.

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Hi @ncw it worked, thanks!
I compiled the git version on my home and ran it directly from there.

The port version doesn't have any options available, maybe a temporarily fix might be that you can enable the cmount flag running a make config before make install clean... maybe... :thinking:

But now how do I umount it? I used to use a simple # umount -a but this is not working... :man_shrugging:

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You'd want to use fusermount or you can kill the process as well.

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It might be that I should make cmount the default for FreeBSD. I don't know anything about the FreeBSD port though (though I know what FreeBSD ports are!).

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