Description of problem: The process of mounting smb shares randomly hangs at random when using the ftsab entry (as netfs does on bootup). This pretty much brings the boot-up process to a grinding halt about 3/5ths of the time on a machine with two smb mounts. Mounting completely manually (eg: mount //someserv/mountname -t smbfs -o credentials=/home/joe/.smbid,uid=joe,rw /home/joe/mountpoint) does not cause the random hangs, however mounting with the aid of an fstab entry (mount /home/joe/samba) does hang randomly. Ctrl-C must be pressed to get the command line back, but the share _is_ mounted in spite of the hang and there's no actual indication of error. Bug 13862 from three years ago looks very similar, only the hang during boot occurs at "Mounting SMB filesystems" There are five machines in total. These (and only these) were freshly installed with RH9 and fully updated. All five are exhibiting this problem. The machines previously ran RH 8, and did not have have this trouble. They were fully updated until the wipe & install session today. The machines also vary in hardware and function, so no imaging or kickstart scripts were used in any of the installs. (FYI: The server is a gentoo box, and no other workstation is having trouble like this) Unfortunately, this means that any machines with several shares are essentially un-bootable without a rescue disk as they will hang almost every time when running the netfs initscript. Netfs runs even before sshd, so we can't even ssh into the boxes and kill hung mount processes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba: 2.2.7a-8.9.0 mount: 2.11y-9 initscripts: 7.14-1 How reproducible: Very. I've found that the likelyhood of a hang running netfs is over 50% on a machine with two smb mounts. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add several smb shares to fstab to be mounted on boot. 2. Reboot (or mount/umount the shares a few times using fstab's help). 3. Watch the mount process hang. Actual results: Mount hangs randomly while mounting fstab-aided smb shares. Expected results: No hangs one way or the other. Additional info: A messy and unpleasant workaround is to edit the netfs script and force it to background the mounting tasks. It works, since even on a hang the filesystems do get mounted- We just wind up with one or more mount processes sitting in the process list until killed manually.
Looks like a variant of my bug #89589.
This is definitely a dupe of Bug 89589
I am suffering the same issue as this user, however if I use the suggested method of mounting compleately from the command line, I still suffer from random hangs. Not much of an addition, but it may help you narrow it down. Doug
Also 103200 is a dupe and has a possible workaround
*** Bug 103200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90036 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.