[Solved] cinnamon crashes on boot when i remove my samba share from fstab

[scratch178]

i have a strange problem, i have my samba share mounted via fstab with this line:

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//192.168.1.44/media /mnt/Media cifs username=user,password=pw,uid=1000,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=Media 0 0

this works perfectly fine, but when i remove this line from fstab, cinnamon crashes on every boot and goes to fallback mode,
i can logout and in again and everything works fine again.

for clarification i want to remove the samba share from fstab,
any ideas on how this can be fixed?

im running LM 20.1

[dave0808]

Pure speculation on my part but I wonder if there's something in your user's config settings that is looking for something in /mnt/Media. As it's no longer there, it could be triggering a fault.

Worth searching all your files for any reference to that directory.

[AndyMH]

What happens when you boot and your NAS or whatever the share is hosted on is not available, e.g. turn it off?

I can't think of a reason why deleting the entry in fstab should cause a problem. Clutching at straws - have you made any manual changes to smb.conf.

[scratch178]

thx for your tips guys, it turned out to have something to do with my graphics card.

i installed the nvidia driver manually and it works now, no idea what the problem was, but its solved now