Re: System hangs due to NFS share
On 23/01/12 21:15, Sylvain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an NFS share mounted on my Debian testing computer with default
> mount options. It works fine but as soon as my computer loses network
> access or the NAS�is disconnected or shut down, the system becomes
> unstable:
>
> - In KDE, everything is frozen (because of the file manager I think)
> - If I try to cd to the mountpoint, it makes the console hang forever
> - I can't umount the mountpoint, as the umount command hangs. Also the
> -f flag doesn't change anything
> - I can't even shutdown my computer anymore and I'm forced to use the
> magic keys to be able to reboot it
>
> I tried different network managers (wicd, network-manager), different
> ways to connect (wifi, wired), and different mount options (using a
> hard nfs mount, specifying the retry option) but that didn't help. I
> really don't know what to try next and this is really driving me mad.
>
> Thanks,
> Sylvain
>
>
Have you tried autofs5?
Cheers
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