On 22/10/2012, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had used one of my autofs mounts last night on my laptop. This > morning I put it to sleep and moved to a different location where that > nfs server is not available. > > I am fully updated to testing repo (as of last night anyway :-) ). > > (i) pacman hung (tho I understand from > > https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=e183522e3168c4a31103b3c7910fa8d29333fb5a > > that this may be fixed .. tho that was quite quite some time > back so maybe something else is happening. That fix (“diskspace: only load filesystem info on demand”) is not in the 4.0.3 release; I think it’s probably waiting for a 4.1 release because it’s on the master branch. As for the rest of your problems I have no idea; I’m not familiar with “autofs” or “systemd” :) > (ii) Alerted by the hang - I tried to restart autofs via > systemctl restart autofs > > Perhaps I didn't wait long enough - but this did not complete. > > (iii) So I rebooted pc. The shutdown hung after systemd reported > [ok] for shutting off remote file systems. Again I only waited > a few minutes - perhaps it would have timed out after sufficiently long > - but how long? > > > (iii) was especially surpising to me - I thought systemd would kill > the daemon sooner. > > Can anyone share What is the right way of dealing with this 'dead > autofs mount' issue?
