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

[Bruce Sass]

On July 21, 2011 05:02:38 AM Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a desirable behaviour when the system is coming up, but having the 
client hang when *going down* because a server disappeared doesn't seem right.

- Bruce