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dogbait

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 13

System hangs when unmount samba shares

When the system reaches 'Unmounting network filesystems', it hangs for several minutes, reporting for random shares:

'Could not umount /home/user/smbshare: Device or resource busy'

I looked at what other Linux boxes do in their network filesystem scripts and they run 'umount -l'.

However, when doing that with umount in Archlinux and -t smbfs I get:

usage: smbumount mountpoint

Why does the umount with archlinux call smbumount? And how can I use the lazy flag then to prevent my system from hanging on shutdown?

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: System hangs when unmount samba shares

You could also try "lsof | grep <busy device>" to see what process is still using your Samba share. After killing the process, the umount command should work fine.

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kamagurka

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-02-20

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Re: System hangs when unmount samba shares

I have pretty much the exact same problem. I can't umount my samba share because it's busy. I can't fuser it, because I get a statting error. And lsof reports that it can't stat the share either, so I don't get information why it's busy. Weee.

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