[KLUG Members] Issue with unmounting an smbmount.

[Dirk H Bartley]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
Yup

Unfortunately I already have turned it back on.  I checked, it can communicate
with the server with a ping.

Dirk