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[launch] Mount options silently dropped on timeout

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#4,831 opened on Apr 17, 2026

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Description

Describe the bug The mount options are silently dropped on timeout

To Reproduce How, and what happened?

  1. multipass launch -n a --timeout 5 --mount ~/dir:/mnt/dir
  2. Error does not mention the missed mounts, even if the instance eventually reaches the running state.

Expected behavior Multipass should clarify to the user that the mount flags are dropped if the mount initialization part is not reached.

Additional info

  • OS: Ubuntu 24.04
  • CPU architecture or model: amd64
  • multipass version: 1.17.0-dev

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Research direction
Inspect the launch command handler and mount initialization; add warning when mount options are not applied due to timeout.
Tech stack
cpp
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cliinfrastructure
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