[gentoo-user] mount umount and xterm freeze

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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.

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