Comment 175 for bug 211631

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 211631] Re: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown)

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:31:00PM -0000, Gonzals, S. wrote:
> The cifs mount are avalaible through vpn (in this case cisco vpn),
> whenever the vpn connection is gone/disconnect,
> but the remote drives still appear as mounted in mtab,
> then
> $umount --a -t cifs -l -f
> takes a lot of time

Yep, that's an understood failure mode: upstart is able to save
network-manager itself from being killed before umountnfs, but isn't
currently able to save the subprocesses (such as those for vpn handling)
that NM spawns.

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