On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Recently my computer devolped a new problem: it sometimes does not > switch itself off when I do shutdown -h now. It hangs somewhere > during the shutdown procedure, and has to be switched off by means > of the mains switch at the back. Fortunately the filesystem is > ext3, so at the next boot it starts again without problems. > > I /think/ the problem may be related to nfs. I recently converted > my wife's computer to Linux. A usb disk connected to my wife's > computer contains media files which we both can use. This common > usb disk used to be shared by means of samba/smbfs, but now it is > exported by means of nfs. > > Now my theory is that the switch-off problem occurs after the > following events: > > 1 - I mount the remote usb drive. > 2 - my wife switches off her computer. > 3 - I try to umount the remote usb drive -- this cannot be done. > > I suppose the shutdown program also tries to umount nfs mounts, > but fails, and then instead of skipping this step, just hangs. > Does this make sense? If so, is there a way to solve this problem?
You could try switching to a soft mount. This can cause silent data loss when a server goes down, but I don't think that should be an issue if this is a read-only mount. Just add "soft" to the mount options. (I haven't tried soft-mounting for this particular case, so I don't know for sure that it will help) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
