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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mount not properly unmounting during shutdown/reboot
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:38:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B5AC9C.1090801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B5ABD3.7020001@libertytrek.org>

On 10/06/2013 12:34, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Sorry, that wasn't much of a problem description...
> 
> I have a system that I often manually mount and unmount some NFS mounts...
> 
> If I try to do a reboot or shutdown of the system while one of these NFS
> mounts is mounted, it hangs with the last thing showing on the screen as
> "Unmounting /var..."
> 
> I've let it sit there for at least half an hour, maybe more, so I don't
> think it would ever continue...
> 
> If I remember to manually unmount the NFS mount before initiating the
> reboot/shutdown, it doesn't hang.
> 
> I'm guessing that it hangs at /var because it is the last mountpoint
> defined in my /etc/fstab?
> 
> So... any pointers on where to look for a resolution would be appreciated.
> 
> Resolution being, if I can manually unmount it fine, why can't the
> system auto-unmount it?


Let's get some facts to work with

can you post your fstab, rc-update show, /etc/exports on the NFS server
and the mount options used for the NFS mounts?





> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
> 
> On 2013-06-09 4:23 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Ok, now would like to investigate this to see why this is causing my
>> shutdowns/reboots to hang with the last thing on the screen being
>> 'unmounting /var...'
>>
>> Anyone got any idea where to look? I sure don't...
>>
>> I see a googling session in my near future, but any pointers that may
>> help expedite this would be appreciated...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-10 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-09 20:23 [gentoo-user] NFS mount not properly unmounting during shutdown/reboot Tanstaafl
2013-06-10 10:34 ` Tanstaafl
2013-06-10 10:38   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-06-10 14:36     ` Tanstaafl
2013-06-10 20:29       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-11 11:46         ` SOLVED - " Tanstaafl
2013-06-11 12:38         ` Thanasis
2013-06-11 13:03           ` Alan McKinnon

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