+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #146141 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041123 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: It appears that the netfs script was written with the intention to gracefully stop (unmount) NFS file systems. The problem is that the first thing the script does is forcibly unmount the NFS-mounted file systems. As a result, it is unable to terminate any processes that have files open on those file systems. On our servers -- where we use NFS extensively -- this leaves hundreds of processes "stuck" because NFS was pulled out from under them, and the servers fail to shutdown properly, usually requiring a power cycle. We've patched the netfs script so that it gracefully stops all processes with open files on NFS-mounted file systems. It makes four attempts (sending the following signals in this order: HUP, TERM, KILL, KILL) before forcing the umount. Test shows that it works as expected, and our servers shutdown quickly. I'll include the patch as soon as I can figure out where to upload it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.31.18.EL-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a process that opens a file on an NFS-mounted file system. 2. Shutdown system Actual Results: System hangs on shutdown. Expected Results: System should have shutdown quickly and not required a power cycle. Additional info: -- Additional comment from chris.ca on 2005-01-25 12:29 EST -- Created an attachment (id=110205) Patch to fix NFS umount bug in /etc/init.d/netfs
This is biting my system too where home is an NFS mount.
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