Re: Switch-off problem
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On 07/19/08 04:46, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> 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?
Manually "umount -l" the remote drive before you shutdown?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
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