On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:28:26 -0700 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. John, You might try fuser(1) or lsof(8) from the client to see what is trying to use your NFS share. You could try from the server, too, since that could hold things up. I've had occasion to use both, and they're usually pretty helpful, though not always. The man pages for both are pretty long, but the most helpful forms of the commands are simply 'command </path/to/share>'. Once you've got the name/PID of the offending program, you can kill it. Anyway, I hope this helps. --Dale -- +----------+ +----------+ +-----------+ +---------+ +-------+ | Space is | | Space is | | It's Hard | | A Place | | Burma | | Big | | Dark | | to Find | | to Park | | Shave | +----------+ +----------+ +-----------+ +---------+ +-------+
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