Brad Felmey wrote:
> -Uvh'ing to this build is causing smb mountpoints to hang permanently.
> I've verified this on seven separate machines so far. If a share is
> mounted via smbmount, and anything happens to that mount (network drop
> or whatever) during access. That mountpoint hangs _forever_. It's
> impossible to kill it with 'kill -9'. It's as bad as NFS. It used to
> time out and give up after a while, and you could certainly kill it, but
> this is no longer the case.
Are you sure it is samba? Have you tried 2.2.2 on the same box? Of
course smb mounts do not olny involve samba, but the kernel also.
Have you pushed up the debug level in smb.conf and seen what it says in
the logs (although I don't think samba logs for smbmount). How about
syslog, dmesg etc?
Shout if you need a specific release of samba on a sepcific release of
Mandrake (otherwise try rebuilding an rpm from
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake, for example:
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/samba/RPMS/8.1/2.2.2/samba-2.2.2-7mdk.src.rpm)
>
> Even better (worse?), any process trying to access said mountpoint when
> it hung is also un-killable, even by killing the parent shell.
>
> I can't just bounce servers whenever samba gets cross to clear the hung
> mountpoints and release all the fried processes.
Are you cross-mounting samba servers, or smbmounting windows boxes ... ?
> Perhaps a rollback to a
> stable version of samba (2.2.2 or so) is in order unless and until >=
> 2.2.3 is stable.
>
You are implying that 2.2.2 was stable? ;-) 2.2.3a has fixed my races on
file locking, to mention one thing ...
OK, I will try and test this at home also ...
Buchan
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