On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Paul Marwick <paul.marwick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I've got two machines in my local network that provide NFS shares. One is > an old Raidsonic NAS (running a current version of OpenWRT), the other a > dedicated server running Slackware). I normally mount the shares manually > (the machine that is giving me a problem is a laptop, so its often not > connected to my own network). > > The problem comes when I try to shut the laptop down (or restart it). > Unless I've manually unmounted the NFS shares, the machine will hang and > fail to shut down. In some instances, I've been able to use CTRL-C to break > out of the stall, but frequently, I can only turn the machine off, which is > not exactly ideal. > > I've been playing with the nfs exports, currently have the following: > > /mnt/sda2/stor 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,** > sync,no_wdelay,nohide,no_root_**squash)<http://192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_wdelay,nohide,no_root_squash)>(this is on the Raidsonic) > > and > > /mnt/sda2/stor 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,** > sync,no_wdelay,nohide,no_root_**squash)<http://192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_wdelay,nohide,no_root_squash)>on the Slackware server. > > The problem is specific to Arch - I've got two other distros installed on > the laptop (though Arch is my usual OS). From SalineOS or Salix, the laptop > will shut down or restart without having to manually unmount the NFS shares > prior to shutdown. > > I suspect I've not got something set up correctly in systemd, but I'm > currently at a loss to work out what. If I manually unmount the shares > before shutdown, there is no problem. I've also tried adding the unmount to > /etc/rc.local.shutdown, but that doesn't work - the system still hangs > during shutdown. I'm sure that rc.local.shutdown is being executed - if I > shut down without the shares mounted, I can see messages that they are not > mounted. > > I'm not sure if I should be looking at the NFS export parameters on the > hosts, or systemd on the laptop, though I've tried some variations on the > exports without changing the behaviour. > > Does anyone know what I should be looking at to solve this? > > Paul. > > Same issue here with NFS4 (both laptop and NAS are Arch), if I find what's happenings I post back.