[Vm-dev] VM building on Pi, OpenGL libraries and other fun things

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 17:43:51 UTC 2017


Hi Tim,

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:13 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> Further info on this afpfs thing -
>
> > Bascially
> > `sudo apt-get install afpfs-ng`
> > `mkdir mymountpoint`
> > `chmod og-rwx mymountpoint`
> > `mount_afp afp://username:password@macnameorip/targetdir mymountpoint`
> > or to be more literal
> > mount_afp afp://fred:flintstone@fredMac/squeakdev /home/pi/squeakdev
> > It works with FUSE, so maybe you want to install that too.
>
> Well, trying to add it to my /etc/fstab has been… annoying. It’s not just
> me, since I’ve found perhaps several hundred web hits from people having a
> hard time with it. The first part of the problem is that the purported
> fstab line to use is of the form
> (from https://sites.google.com/site/alexthepuffin/home by the author)
> "afpfs#afp://username:mypass@10.211.55.2/alexdevries /tmp/xa20 fuse
> user=adevries,group=fuse 0 0 “
>
> BUT this prevents the Pi from booting. Urk. By sheer fluke I was doing
> this test on a Pi that is set to boot from a usb disk so it was reasonably
> easy to mount it on another Pi and eventually I worked out how to find the
> fstab and comment out that line. I tried rebooting and then re-enablgin the
> line and using `sudo mount -a` to see what happens and apparently there was
> no `afpfs` command; after more fun time googling I discovered this was
> supposed to be  bash script `/sbin/afpfs` that moves around the arguments
> (why? why ever do them in a different order to the main command?) and then
> I discovered a page from a Pi book that google had scanned which mentioned
> manually creating this file. Huh? Not included in the install package?
>
> OK, make the script as shown (and eventually found in the source code for
> the thing) and try that. Nope, refuses to boot, so redo the cross-mounting
> and modify fstab, again. You get the general gist of it; many hours spent
> searching, trying ideas suggested by people having related issues,
> rebooting and so on. I did finally find a version of the fstab line that
> does allow the boot to complete, albeit very, very, slowly and without
> actually making the mount available -
>
> afpfs#afp://username:password@TCname.local/sharename /mountpoint fuse
> user=osmc,group=fuse,x-systemd.automount,noauto 0 0
>

You and I talked on the phone yesterday evening but for other's benefit in
fstab # is the comment character.  See https://wiki.debian.org/fstab.  So
in the above you probably want to replace # with, say, a tab.

HTH


> So right now I’m stuck and annoyed and frustrated. This isn’t how things
> should work but seems to have become the standard over the last years.
> Grrr. Suggestions for solutions welcomed.
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Strange OpCodes: CCP: Clear Core and Proceed
>
>
>


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best, Eliot
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