I've been noticing the phenomena described below for a while now and having a little trouble getting a good idea how to debug.
If I have mounted shares via smbfs or cifs and something happens to make those mounts unusable, like the machine the shares are on is powered down or whatever, then I have a problem. If I happen to run a `ls' on the directory where the mountpoints are kept (/mnt) or in other ways access those mountpoints, the xterm I'm working from becomes unusable and the command NEVER completes. These particular shares are on winXP machines and are mounted using this syntax: mount -t cifs -o user=MYUSER%PASSWORD //harvey/harvey-g /mnt/harvey-g Attempts to umount the problem shares also results in a hung command and useless xterm. Killing the xterm manually seems to be the only way to stop the hung action. So far I've used the old MS refrain `reboot, reboot, and reboot' to clear up the mounts but I'm sure there is some better way or maybe a way to prevent this from the start. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
