From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:05:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mount: try to tell what mount was doing when it failed
X-Git-Tag: v2.29-rc1~285^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=592fe0175f25a5d50d14de4eecdb7f22be4bdb39;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

mount: try to tell what mount was doing when it failed

Earlier output did not give enough information to system admin to fix an
issue in /etc/fstab effectively.

$ sudo mount -a
mount: mount(2) failed: No such file or directory

Addresses: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1557145
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
---

diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.c b/sys-utils/mount.c
index 9c4729ef89..64ec0a7794 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.c
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.c
@@ -520,7 +520,12 @@ try_readonly:
 			warnx(_("special device %s does not exist"), src);
 		} else {
 			errno = syserr;
-			warn(_("mount(2) failed"));	/* print errno */
+			if (tgt)
+				warn("%s: %s", _("mount(2) failed"), tgt);
+			else if (src)
+				warn("%s: %s", _("mount(2) failed"), src);
+			else
+				warn(_("mount(2) failed"));
 		}
 		break;
 
@@ -535,7 +540,7 @@ try_readonly:
 				 "(a path prefix is not a directory)"), src);
 		} else {
 			errno = syserr;
-			warn(_("mount(2) failed"));     /* print errno */
+			warn("%s: %s", _("mount(2) failed"), tgt);
 		}
 		break;