David: Reproducing is quite easy. Mount a Samba share using a CIFS mount in /etc/fstab, and try to shutdown. It will take 20 more seconds than usual and interrupt the bootsplash with the "CIFS VFS: server not responding" messages. Using NetworkManager to handle networking breaks the design of the boot/shutdown sequences (which suppose the network up early and late in the process).
Workarounds include: - hacking the shutdown sequence to make it unmount network filesystems earlier (that's what most community-contributed docs suggest) : applied more generally that would break for example having /usr on NFS - define your network in /etc/network/interfaces rather than in NetworkManager (then you get the old behavior) - Do not use CIFS mounts but use Gnome VFS "mounts" like typing smb://foo/bar in nautilus A final solution depends on what use cases the Foundations team wants to support/recommend, hence the thread I raised in ubuntu-devel. -- P3: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348004 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Foundations Team, which is a direct subscriber. Status in “network-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: This private bug is an escalation of public Bug #211631 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/211631 A support customer has reported this issue on Ubuntu 8.10. The original bug was reported and confirmed previous to any interaction with the customer. First reported here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1087459 4 shares total ========== 2 from a Mac box 2 from a Win box The following error when shutting down: CIFS VFS: server not responding [167.0480217] CIFS VFS: server not responding [167.0480217] cmd 50 mid 33 To troubleshoot, commented out in /etc/fstab the two shares hosted on the mac and rebooted. Error still shows, uncommented those two lines and comment the two from the windows box, still gets error. Uncommented all of them and still gets error. The bug has not been reproduced. Support can test and provide relevant debugging information if necessary. QA Team response deadline: Mar 25, 18:00 UTC _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-foundations Post to : ubuntu-foundations@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-foundations More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
