Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3565 mails)

[Joseph Loo <jloo@xxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Friday 2007-04-20 at 17:07 +0200, Petr Klíma wrote:
> 
>> Oh and I see that I forgot my second question before. It's related to
>> shutdown rather that to startup though.
> 
> You'd better open a new thread. I'm changing the subject for this one, 
> anyway.
> 
>> I use OpenSuse 10.X with /home on NFS (not sure if it's significant...).
>> The problem is that sometimes reboot or shutdown doesn't proceed and
>> halts. Last message written on the console is "Sending processes the
>> KILL signal". System is not dead (NumLock responding), but doesn't
>> proceed with shutdown/reboot further.
> 
>> This happens everytime (or almost everytime) I try to shutdown/reboot
>> from KDE or GDM or using "reboot" command.
> 
> My guess is that the nfs session refuses to umount because there is a user 
> process (the one doing the halt) running from there. Or the halt process 
> is a child of kdesu that is running as user, or something of the sort.
> 
>> I experienced such behaviour with all OpenSuse 10.x versions, on
>> different machines, both i386 and x86_64 platforms.
> 
> You could open a bugzilla... I don't know if this is expected behaviour, 
> or if some option in the nfs mount can help.
> 

Can you describe how you mount the nfs volume? I use an NFS automount on /home
using atufs and experience no problem at all. But then again I also put in
automatic timeouts?

How long eo you wait before you decide that the umount fails? Sometimes I fine
that my umount may take 2 to 3 minutes before. On some rare occasion 10 minutes.
-- 
Joseph Loo
jloo@xxxxxxx
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