As root try using ksysv to shift the shutdown of nfs in runlevel 6
until much later (give it a higher number).

It gets shutdown before the remote umount logic, which is just
stupid...


Brian Schroeder wrote:
> 
> I've recently been bitten again by something that happens occasionally.
> 
> Situation:
> computerA exports a filesystem F
> computerB NFS mounts filesystem F
> computerA shuts down, dies, breaks, or ...
> 
> computerB cannot umount filesystem F, and various things break (I had
> rpm break this time).  computerB cannot even shutdown cleanly, because
> of the NFS problem.
> 
> Question:  Is there a way to force the umount?  (umount -f is supposed
> to do this, I think, but I have never seen it work.)

-- 
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]

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