can't mount ipfs

[CJentzsch]

ERRO[09:17:08:000] error mounting: fusermount: exit status 1 fusermount: exit status 1 module=core/commands

even with sudo ipfs mount -f <existingPath>

[jbenet]

will have to give more data than this to debug. maybe stop by #ipfs on freenode.

[edouard-lopez]

Environment

ipfs version 0.3.10-dev 

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint (~Ubuntu)
Description:    Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Release:        17.2
Codename:       rafaela

Command

Fails after ~25s:

sudo ipfs mount -f /tmp/test-mount
Error: fuse failed to access mountpoint /ipns

Daemon

22:38:41.993 ERROR core/comma: error mounting: %!s(<nil>) fusermount: exit status 1 mount_unix.go:219

[whyrusleeping]

i think we need a little UX change here. ipfs mount tries to mount both ipfs and ipns, the -f and -n options just change the mountpoint for that particular fs

[jbenet]

I've been wanting a revamp of the mount command for a while. specifically would like these to work:

# mount "/ipfs" into local "~/ipfs"
ipfs mount /ipfs ~/ipfs

# mount "/ipns" into local "~/ipns"
ipfs mount /ipns ~/ipns

# mount "/ipfs/<hash>/a/b/c" into local "./c"
ipfs mount /ipfs/<hash>/a/b/c ./c

[10247bit]

ipfs mount
it worked before
but now after rebooting the system and restarting the daemon command
it is printing this error

18:44:46.136 ERROR node: error mounting: mountpoint does not exist: /ipfs mount_unix.go:89
18:44:46.136 ERROR node: error mounting: mountpoint does not exist: /ipns mount_unix.go:93

i am new to ipfs plz help if you can

[Stebalien]

@IntenseRave Your issue is probably unrelated to this bug. You probably just need to create the /ipfs and /ipns directories. If that's not sufficient, please open a new issue (so we don't add too much noise here).

[kallisti5]

kallisti5@desktop ~ :( $ ipfs --api="/ip4/192.168.1.10/tcp/45001" mount
Error: fuse failed to access mountpoint /ipfs

kallisti5@desktop ~ :( $ ls -lah /ipfs /ipns
/ipfs:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x  1 kallisti5 kallisti5   0 Aug  8 16:40 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root      root      230 Aug  8 16:40 ..

/ipns:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x  1 kallisti5 kallisti5   0 Aug  8 16:40 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root      root      230 Aug  8 16:40 ..

[Stebalien]

It sounds like you're running IPFS on a different machine?

[kallisti5]

@Stebalien indeed. If there is a limitation there, ipfs might need logic to alert the user that remote connectivity for fuse mounts doesn't work in that configuration.

[Stebalien]

Well, it "works", it'll just mount /ipfs on the remote machine...