[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] system hangs during shutdown...

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 18:34 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> ...while unmounting an NFS import.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> [Please Cc me with any replies.]
> 
> --- copied from console ---
> Asking all remaining processes to terminate... done.
> Currently running processes (pstree):
> init-+-4*[kded4---{kded4}]
>      |-rc---startpar---sendsigs---pstree
>      |-rpc.statd
>      |-rpcbind
>      '-rsyslogd---3*[{rsyslogd}]
> Killing all remaining processes... Saving random seed... done.
> failed.
> Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd
> Unmounting remote and non-toplevel virtual filesystems...[285770.720036] nfs: 
> server satone not responding, still trying
> 
> [After about 20 minutes had passed I hit the power button. :( ]
> ---
> 
> Satone is a dual-boot laptop that just happened to have changed from DGL 
> serving up a user's $HOME via NFS (the only fs it exports) to Windows Vista. 
> I'm mentioning this fact because I don't know if it matters that the exporting 
> server disappeared <period>, or that it was replaced by a non-unix-like system 
> that doesn't run an NFS server.
[...]

This is not a bug.  NFS clients are supposed to keep on trying to reach
the server, by default.  You should have unmounted the directory from
the NFS client(s) before shutting down the server.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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