severity 320181 important thanks On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:16:43PM +0200, Dr. Jürgen Pfennig wrote: > Package: smbfs > Version: 3.0.14a-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable
> Symptom: When using automount to mount smb/cifs network shares after a > while (automount expiration time!) the smbd hangs and cannot be killed > (needs reboot). This seems to imply that the automounter is doing something wrong in the process of trying to unmount after the timeout. If the shares can be successfully unmounted when mounted directly, what reason is there to think this is a smbfs bug rather than an autofs bug? In any case, the package is certainly usable for a large number of people, it just isn't usable together with autofs; so "important" is the correct severity here. > Analysis: It's simpler to experiment with subfs Well, I've never heard of subfs before; I certainly don't agree that a third-party automounter makes a better test case for a Debian bug. > This looks as if mount.cifs does try to touch the mountpoint before > the samba-mount is complete thereby causing a recursion for autofs > and subfs. This is true, and is done for security reasons. It's possible that this check can be skipped when mount is called by root. Does autofs call the mount scripts as root? If not, then this bug can't be fixed in smbfs. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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