I'm gonna say permissions, and is the usb stick fat32 or ntfs? things might work better if it was ext_something... (ext4?) NTFS has weird locks, and the linux ntfs drivers are kinda buggy... That's all i've got right now...
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:28 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > It's hard for me to remember anything in all my years of using > computers that is as big a PITA as NFS. > > It was working fine yesterday. Today, without touching anything, > suddenly the client can't see the files on the share. Thunar hangs when > I try to open a window to display the share; Nautilus just presents a > spinning cursor, but at least I can exit gracefully without having to > kill it. > > >From the command line on the client the mount command executes without > error and df -h says the share is mounted. However, when I try to > umount the share I get error messages that the share is busy. I even > tried umount -f, but it still says the share is busy and won't umount > it. And the terminal window hangs if I try to cd to the share; that is, > I can cd right up to the folder I want to see, but just typing the > first letter of the folder hangs the terminal window, as does the ls > command. That probably means something, but Google won't tell me what. > > The server is the laptop, Xubuntu 13.10, up to date, and the client is > the desktop, Xubuntu 12.04, up to date. The share is the /media folder > on the laptop, and the files I want to see are on an external USB > drive, mounted at /media/jjj/Movies on the laptop. The laptop has no > problem displaying or manipulating the files in the Movies folder. > > Suggestions for things to poke at would be welcome. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
