Samba Dropping Mounts - "Broken Pipe" msgs

[auto852 at hushmail.com]

At Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:52:43 +0200 (MET DST), Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest.se> 
wrote:

>
>On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 auto852 at hushmail.com wrote:
>
>> After updating the kernel I get really nice and simple error messages:
>>
>> kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
>> kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
>> kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
>> last message repeated 4 times
>> last message repeated 6 times
>> last message repeated 3 times
>>
>> and one more glitch has occured since upgrading the kernel to 2.2.16-
>3....
>> which hadn't occured previously...
>
>The "smb_retry: caught signal" problem should no longer occur in
>2.2.18pre3 or so. You will probably not find a RedHat rpm for kernel 
>pre
>versions so you may have to compile your own.
>
>
>> now... on each reboot (during shutdown process) the system hangs while 
>attempting
>> to unmount the filesystem, so I have had to hard reset the system 
>on each
>> reboot.
>
>If you umount a smbfs share when the network has been downed the umount
>will hang (there is no timeout on send or receives). It's known and 
>should
>be fixed in recent distributions by simply moving the umount of smbfs
>before shutting down the networking.
>
>smbfs should of course not require a working network to umount.
>
>Are you sure you didn't get this in 2.2.14 if you had smbfs mounted?

Well...come to think about it...not 100% sure because a script was added 
to unmount and mount on a reboot and we had no need to reboot until updating 
the kernel. :) I hope that makes sense :)

btw...just thought I'd say that I highly commend you on your dedication 
and helpfullness :) 
 
>/Urban
>