Hi all, I'm having an intermittent problem with samba mounts from sid on one server. Once a week or so, a connection to one of the shares hangs. Shares on other servers are fine, shares on the problem server are fine from another client, it's just connections from this particular workstation to that particular server which die. It is possible, of course, that if I was accessing one of the other servers at the time the fault occurs, it might kill those shares.
In the fault state, which I have only been able to fix by rebooting the workstation, Thunar does not open at all, presumably as it has shortcuts to the offending shares, mc runs but hangs if I try to open the directory containing the offending mount points, apparently indefinitely. I can't close mc to see if the terminal shows an error, I must close the terminal. The mounts are still shown by the mount command, any attempt to umount or remount one of the shares hangs, again apparently indefinitely, so I get no error message. Mounting is handled by systemd, as far as I know, but I can find no systemd unit which refers to cifs. ps aux returns a cifsd entry, but shows the status as 'D', and shows no parent. It also shows four kworkers which refer to cifs. None of these processes can be killed, so presumably they are zombies. I assume this is a temporary bug, which will eventually be fixed, but I can find no information at all to send in a bug report, other than 'it doesn't work'. What I'm looking for here is suggestions about what to look for to provide some useful bug information. There's nothing in any log, of course, either on client or server. Is there anything I can restart which is likely to wake things up? Rebooting isn't a great problem, but it just seems like a Windows way of fixing things. -- Joe
