Hi I have a debian lenny i386 vserver running on lenny amd64 host with the following fstab entry: none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs size=256m,mode=1777 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /home /home bind bind 0 0 /iscsi/www /var/www bind bind 0 0 /iscsi/log/concero /var/log bind bind 0 0 When I start a vserver, I see these errors in the output: secure-mount: mount(): Invalid argument /etc/vservers/concero/fstab:5:1: failed to mount fstab-entry secure-mount: mount(): Invalid argument /etc/vservers/concero/fstab:6:1: failed to mount fstab-entry But the vserver starts and the directories in fstab file are mounted anyway. I don't know if it makes a difference but /home fs is ext3, /iscsi is formatted with ocfs2 and mounted with iscsi. I can mount them manually with the following command: sudo mount --bind /iscsi/log/concero /etc/vservers/concero/vdir/var/log When I dig deeper I found that secure-mount is called with the following parameters: ++ pushd /etc/vservers/concero/vdir ++ test -w etc -o -w etc/mtab ++ /usr/lib/util-vserver/secure-mount -a --chroot --fstab /etc/vservers/concero/fstab --rootfs no Here are the strace of the manual running of secure-mount (if it helps): chroot(".") = 0 chdir("/") = 0 fchdir(3) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 chdir("/var/www") = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 fchdir(4) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 fchdir(6) = 0 close(6) = 0 mount("/iscsi/www", ".", 0x7fffdf03e67f, MS_NODEV|MS_BIND, 0x7f9ad703f070) = 0 fchdir(3) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 chdir("/var/www") = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 fchdir(4) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 fchdir(6) = 0 close(6) = 0 mount("/iscsi/www", ".", 0x7fffdf03e67f, MS_NODEV|MS_REMOUNT, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) write(2, "secure-mount: mount()"..., 21secure-mount: mount()) = 21 write(2, ": "..., 2: ) = 2 write(2, "Invalid argument"..., 16Invalid argument) = 16 write(2, "\n"..., 1 ) = 1 write(2, "/etc/vservers/concero/fstab"..., 27/etc/vservers/concero/fstab) = 27 write(2, ":5:1"..., 4:5:1) = 4 write(2, ": failed to mount fstab-entry\n"..., 30: failed to mount fstab-entry ) = 30 chdir("/") = 0 fchdir(3) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 chdir("/var/log") = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 fchdir(4) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 fchdir(6) = 0 close(6) = 0 mount("/iscsi/log/concero", ".", 0x7fffdf03e6a9, MS_NODEV|MS_BIND, 0x7f9ad703f090) = 0 fchdir(3) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 chdir("/var/log") = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 fchdir(4) = 0 chroot(".") = 0 fchdir(6) = 0 close(6) = 0 mount("/iscsi/log/concero", ".", 0x7fffdf03e6a9, MS_NODEV|MS_REMOUNT, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) write(2, "secure-mount: mount()"..., 21secure-mount: mount()) = 21 write(2, ": "..., 2: ) = 2 write(2, "Invalid argument"..., 16Invalid argument) = 16 write(2, "\n"..., 1 ) = 1 write(2, "/etc/vservers/concero/fstab"..., 27/etc/vservers/concero/fstab) = 27 write(2, ":6:1"..., 4:6:1) = 4 write(2, ": failed to mount fstab-entry\n"..., 30: failed to mount fstab-entry ) = 30 close(5) = 0 _exit(0) = ? Kind Regards Erdem Bayer