[Gluster-users] RHEL 5.8 mount fails "cannot open /dev/fuse"

[Gene Liverman]

Running the script did indeed fix things, thanks! Personally, I count this
as a bug since it is not required on later versions of RHEL... maybe the
installer should check that the fuse module is loaded and load it if it's
not found. Just a thought.





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On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:30:53AM -0400, Gene Liverman wrote:
> > Ahh, so should I just run that script manually and be done with it? Does
> > that mean that when we eventually do reboot that it will automatically
> load
> > itself from then on? Thanks!
>
> Yes, you can run the script manually (it only does 'modprobe fuse').
> After a reboot the fuse module should be loaded very early during the
> boot process. There should be no issues related to fuse when mounting is
> done afterwards.
>
> Cheers,
> Niels
>
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> > On Jun 1, 2014 3:47 AM, "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 03:51:58AM +0000, Franco Broi wrote:
> > > > Doesn't work for me either on Centos 5, have to modprobe fuse.
> > > >
> > > > On 1 Jun 2014 10:46, Gene Liverman <gliverma at westga.edu> wrote:
> > > > Just setup my first Gluster share (replicated on 3 nodes) and it
> works
> > > > fine on RHEL 6 but when trying to mount it on RHEL 5.8 I get the
> > > > following in my logs:
> > > >
> > > > [2014-06-01 02:01:29.580163] I [glusterfsd.c:1959:main]
> > > 0-/usr/sbin/glusterfs: Started running /usr/sbin/glusterfs version
> 3.5.0
> > > (/usr/sbin/glusterfs --volfile-server=eapps-gluster01 --volfile-id=/gv0
> > > /eapps/shared)
> > > > [2014-06-01 02:01:29.581147] E [mount.c:267:gf_fuse_mount]
> > > 0-glusterfs-fuse: cannot open /dev/fuse (No such file or directory)
> > > > [2014-06-01 02:01:29.581207] E [xlator.c:403:xlator_init] 0-fuse:
> > > Initialization of volume 'fuse' failed, review your volfile again
> > > >
> > > > I installed glusterfs and glusterfs-fuse from
> > >
> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/RHEL/glusterfs-epel.repo.el5
> > > and got have the following currently:
> > > > # rpm -qa |grep -i gluster
> > > > glusterfs-libs-3.5.0-2.el5
> > > > glusterfs-3.5.0-2.el5
> > > > glusterfs-fuse-3.5.0-2.el5
> > > >
> > > > Everything I have read online says that I should not have to manually
> > > > install fuse or manually run modprobe or manually make /dev/fuse so
> > > > I am lost as to why this is not working.  Any tips on what to do
> next?
> > >
> > > Indeed, that should not be needed. I guess you installed the
> > > gluster-fuse package after a basic installation and the system did not
> > > reboot yet with glusterfs-fuse installed. On EL5, udev (I think) does
> > > not automatically load the fuse module if /dev/fuse is accessed. The
> > > glusterfs-fuse package contains a script that loads the module when the
> > > system boots (/etc/sysconfig/modules/glusterfs-fuse.modules).
> > >
> > > I am not sure if it would be better to load the module immediately when
> > > glusterfs-fuse gets installed.
> > >
> > > Niels
> > >
>
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