On 08/16/2015 12:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 14:11 -0400, Adam Batkin wrote: >> On 08/16/2015 07:01 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Emmett Culley wrote: >>> >>>> Why does the desktop freeze whenever an NFS share fails? I have >>>> set all >>>> NFS mounts to soft,intr and yet, if I forget to unmount a share >>>> before >>>> taking down the NFS server, my desktop freezes. >>>> >>>> Luckily I have Yakauke running, so I can at least get to a >>>> console. But >>>> of course the NFS mount cannot be umounted if it doesn't respond. >>>> >>>> Also I assumed the setting shares to intr, soft would prevent >>>> other >>>> software from hanging if the share stops responding. Is that not >>>> so? Or >>>> is there another setting I am not aware of? >>>> >>>> Any ideas how to prevent this from happening? >>> >>> >>> It not *that* different to when a (mounted) disk stops working. >>> I'd >>> recommend focusing on simply avoiding that situation. >> >> I assume that you were referring to local (physical) disks. >> >> Regardless, I disagree: Failure happens and software should at least >> *attempt* to be resilient. >> >> If I'm asking Konqueror or Dolphin to access a broken mount (local or >> network) then I understand if it hangs (though that could be avoided >> too, even if it just displays a "loading" indicator since it >> obviously >> can't get any further). >> >> But for general operations I would expect that nothing should hang. >> This >> is a solvable problem, and suggesting that people should avoid hung >> mounts isn't helpful given that usually (this particular situation >> excepted) they are totally unavoidable. A hung desktop is never >> acceptable. > > +1 > > poc > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > OK, so I am not the only one :-) I agree that the system shouldn't hang if an NFS share fails, any more that it should hang if I attempt to access an off-line server via fish (ssh), which it doesn't do. Is it worth reporting a bug, or are we stuck with this (lack of ) functionality? Emmett _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
