SOLVED - SHARES: There are no exportable user shares

I was renaming/removing files on my stable 6.8.3 server - at some point i wasn't able to access files in a share so i stopped the array and restarted. The Shares tab now says 'There are no exportable user shares".

 

In the Log, i see that /mnt/user already exists when the startup tries to create it:

 

Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78948): sync
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78949): mkdir /mnt/user0
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78950): /usr/local/sbin/shfs /mnt/user0 -disks 30 -o noatime,allow_other  |& logger
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia shfs: use_ino: 1
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia shfs: direct_io: 0
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78951): mkdir /mnt/user
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia root: mkdir: cannot create directory '/mnt/user': File exists
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78951): exit status: 1
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78952): /usr/local/sbin/shfs /mnt/user -disks 31 2048000000 -o noatime,allow_other -o remember=330  |& logger
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia shfs: error: main, 3321: Transport endpoint is not connected (107): #012can't chdir: /mnt/user Transport endpoint is not connected
Dec 20 16:08:53 JDGJrMedia emhttpd: shcmd (78952): exit status: 255

 

When I list the contents of /mnt I get this oddity:

 

ls: cannot access '/mnt/user': Transport endpoint is not connected
total 16
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 78 Dec 20 15:35 cache
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody users 19 Dec 20 15:35 disk1
drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody users 38 Dec 20 15:35 disk2
drwxrwxrwx 5 nobody users 62 Dec 20 15:35 disk3
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody users 19 Dec 20 15:35 disk4
drwxrwxrwt 3 nobody users 60 Dec 20 16:08 disks
drwxrwxrwt 2 nobody users 40 Dec  9 00:00 remotes
d????????? ? ?      ?      ?            ? user
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 19 Dec 20 15:35 user0

 

I've tried to remove or rename the user directory, but so far I only get the transport endpoint error shown above.

 

I was able to resolve this by 'sudo umount -l user' and then removing the directory

 

all my user shares reappeared on restart.

 

John

 

Edited December 21, 20205 yr by JDGJr
resolved problem