[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Processed: Reassigning to smbfs

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 431966 initscripts
thanks

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:15:13PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:

> > reassign 431966 smbfs
> Bug#431966: sysvinit cannot unmount cifs filesystems
> Bug reassigned from package `initscripts' to `smbfs'.

I don't see the justification for this reassignment.  CIFS mounts don't
require any particular processes to be running in order to unmount - they
just require the network to be reachable.  A "Server not responding" message
indicates to me that the current init script shutdown order is failing at
this.

The description of the umountnfs.sh init script certainly includes CIFS in
its scope ("Unmount all network filesystems [...]"), so I don't see any
reason that the maintainers of the smbfs package should be expected to do
additional work here for what appears to very much be a general issue with
the handling of network filesystems on shutdown.

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