CIFS mounts hang shutdown

[DominicL]

Binary package hint: sysvinit

This is a documented and ongoing problem. From a fresh install of 8.10 with smbfs added, any CIFS mounts will hang for a time during shutdown.

sysvinit version: 2.86.ds1-59ubuntu13

This is documented in a bug here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/42121

And the work-around is documented in the community Wiki here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

I am opening this as a new bug as per Scott's comment on bug 42121:

" you might be seeing similar symptoms, it is not the same as this bug - and you should file a new one. -- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden>"

Thank you,
- Dominic L.

[Tom Chiverton (bugs-launchpad-net-falkensweb)]

Still busted in 10.4 LTS beta 2

[Nick Demou (ndemou)]

this seems like a duplicate of bug 211631

[Nick Demou (ndemou)]

BTW I use this work around for my gnome based PC with only one user: I've added this line to /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default
   umount `mount | grep 192.168. | sed -e "s/ on \/.*$//"`

This script gets executed when I log out of gnome and it un-mounts all cifs/samba shares on servers with IP starting with 192.168 (which in my case is everything I mount)

____________
Note that
   mount | grep 192.168.
gives me a list of shares I have mounted at the time I log out of gnome

[Nick Demou (ndemou)]

forgot to note that the above work around needs to
a) allow non-root users to run umount.cifs (un-mount samba shares). You can do that with the command:
   sudo chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs
b) Add the option users to all the samba shares in /etc/fstab. e.g.:
   //192.168.0.2/foo /mnt/foo cifs users,rw,iocharset=utf8,...,...