Potential race/crash: 2.2.13 & smbfs

From: John Madden (weez@avenir.dhs.org)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 17:05:19 EST


I've been having a problem lately with about half a dozen machines, all
running 2.2.13 (Slackware 7).

With remote filesystems mounted (using smbmount/smbfs; samba 2.0.5a), I
sometimes
run into a strange crash/race condition. It [usually] occurs at some
point after the monitor
has been shut off while in X through dpms (and X's OffTime option) - the
keyboard/mouse
lock (or at least, have no effect on bringing the monitor out of dpms).
The machine otherwise
responds fine, aside from the load avg being at 1 (race? no process was
taking up _any_
of the cpu, according to top), and not being able to kill the smbmount
proc.

The only solution that I've been able to come to is a reboot, which
results in a hang at trying
to 'unmount remote filesystems.' Am I looking at a kernel/smbfs bug, or
should I direct this
more to the samba folks?

Thanks,
    John

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