[KLUG Members] Issue with unmounting an smbmount.

[Bruce Smith]

> I'm have a major issue.  I believe I have traced down what is happening to an
> issue with an smb mount process.
> 
> df hangs when it gets to the smb mounted partition
> 
> [root@srvbai1 /root]# ps -aux | grep smb
> root     14764  0.0  0.2  3452 1168 ?        D    09:20   0:00 /sbin/mount.smbfs
> root     16774  0.0  0.2  3452 1168 ?        D    09:39   0:00 /sbin/mount.smbfs
> root     16937  0.0  0.2  3452 1168 ?        D    09:40   0:00 /sbin/mount.smbfs
> 1064     19473  0.0  0.0  1456  476 pts/7    D<   09:55   0:00 cat /mnt/smb/bais
> root     20152  0.0  0.2  3452 1168 ?        D    10:00   0:00 /sbin/mount.smbfs
> root     22286  0.0  0.2  3452 1168 ?        D    10:20   0:00 /sbin/mount.smbfs
> 
> I have tried to kill and kill -9 all of these processes but no luck.  I have
> tried to remove the smbfs module but no luck.  Soon I will be rebooting if I
> cannot think of anything.
> 
> Any Suggestions?

Do you have a mounted SMB volume where the PC has been turned off?

If so, turn it back on!  :-)   Otherwise, you can try and fake it out 
by giving something else the IP address of the PC which is turned off. 
Even a different PC without the same share might cause the smbfs
processes to error out and "fix" your problem.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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