On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:32:37 -0700
David <[email protected]> dijo:

>On 09/01/2014 08:41 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> My laptop has a share for /media so that my desktop can access a USB
>> drive external to the laptop. Sometimes it just works, more often it
>> requires considerable swearing to get it to work. This evening I have
>> exhausted my store of expletives in one language and am starting on
>> another language.
>>
>> The laptop us Xubuntu 14.04.1 and the desktop is Xubuntu 12.04.
>>
>> If I try to mount the share on the desktop at the command line the
>> command just hangs forever. No error messages; it just fails to do
>> anything. If I try to umount it I get the dreaded "device is busy."
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know why NFS is such a
>> PITA?
>
>NFS normally just works, but when you get the "device busy" response, 
>that generally means the filesystem is in use by some process.
>
>This could be a shell where you did a cd into the share, it could be a 
>background process you have running, or a background sub-process for
>an application you are using.
>
>Try using lsof (list open files) as root with the path you are trying
>to umount. This should give you the PID of whatever is holding the
>device open, and from there you can determine how to resolve the
>problem so you can unmount the share.

lsof command on the desktop also hangs, the same as trying ls on
the /media/jjj directory. Trying to view the /media/jjj directory in
Thunar also hangs Thunar.

I did discover a clue: The GUI task manager on the desktop shows the
mount command twice, and I cannot kill either one (no permission). The
mount command is "sudo mount.nfs
192.168.0.126:/media /media/jjj/Devil-Bonobo/ -o rw," where ...126 is
the laptop. How do you kill a mount command?
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