On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:04:27 +0300
"Bastiaan Welmers" <haasje@welmers.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having annoying NFS problems. By one or other reason there's
> something wrong with the NFS server and connection stops.
> After that I am unable to kill applications using de NFS share, unable
> to unmount the NFS share and even not able to reboot the machine
> without pressing the reset button.
> All program working with the NFS share just freeze and nothing can be
> done about that.

NFS behaves like that by default - try adding 'intr' to the mount
options, like this:
wintermute:/share/media /nfs/media      nfs     rw,soft,bg,intr 0 0

This causes NFS requests to time out after a certain time instead of
waiting forever.

> /Bastiaan

Kind regards,
Benjamin

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