motd/landscape scripts hang with a stale NFS mount
Bug #521178 reported by
Sean Stoops
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #351927: Deal with stale network mount points (nfs, fuse, etc).
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| landscape-client (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: base-files
The default motd scripts on Ubuntu Server 9.10 in /etc/update-motd.d/ can potentially cause a login to hang from both the console and via SSH if a stale NFS mount exists on the system. This is the same issue you'd see if you ran an 'ls' in a directory with a stale NFS mount.
The culprit script is /etc/update-
My local solution was to unlink this script.
uname -a
Linux db03 2.6.31-14-server #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 15:07:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Revision history for this message
| C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | base-files (Ubuntu) → landscape-client (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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resetting the package to lanscape-common. Setting Importance to Medium right now, but this has a good potential to be a serious issue.