[Gllug] SMB causing hanging processes

[Simon Wilcox]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 21:06, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Mon 24 Mar Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > I can't umount it (device is busy) and root can't kill -9 the processes.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to unblock this without rebooting the server (which I 
> > really don't want to do, except as a last resort) ?
> 
> Try this switch to umount:
> 
>        -f     Force unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS system).
>               (Requires kernel 2.1.116 or later.)

[simonw at morpheus simonw]$ sudo umount -f /mnt/cypher
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: //cypher/data: not found
umount: /mnt/cypher: Illegal seek

Looks like I'll need to reboot it but that doesn't seem very unixy :-(

Simon.

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