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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:21:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B4E3E5.9090005@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B49BF1.3030900@gmail.com>

On 2013-06-09 11:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 16:43, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> I do know the last few times this has happened, the NFS mount was
>> 'unavailable' (the device had powered down without first unmounting it
>> from the server)...
>>
>> I hope that is all it is...

> Ugh, NFS complicates things :-)
>
> I have a similar thing with my notebook and NFS mounts at home, I often
> forget to umount the NFS dirs, causing issues when I then go to work and
> wake the machine up
>
> If you have NFS in the mix, I'd certainly investigate that first before
> getting into more complex things. Also check that your NFS and mount
> stuff in /etc/init.d are doing the right thing in the right order with
> both startup and shutdown

Yep, that bugger was it...

umounted the NFS mount and the reboot went smooth as silk.

Now, to figure out why the NFS mount isn't unmounting properly during a 
shutdown or reboot, but that will be another thread...

Thanks Alan!


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-09 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-08 21:37 [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server? Tanstaafl
2013-06-09  7:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-09 14:43   ` Tanstaafl
2013-06-09 15:14     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-09 15:27       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-09 20:21       ` Tanstaafl [this message]

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