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.
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