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CIFS VFS: server not responding

Bug #348075 reported by Johan Ryberg on 2009-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #211631: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	samba (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Jaunty by Johan Ryberg

Bug Description

Binary package hint: smbfs

Official workaround does not work in 9.04. System hangs on shut down/restart

This is an old problem but it has always been possible to fix it using the instruction in "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently":
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh

Message in kern.log:
Mar 22 23:54:14 xps-laptop kernel: [50890.036139] CIFS VFS: server not responding
Mar 22 23:54:14 xps-laptop kernel: [50890.036197] CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 50 mid 52

rancor@xps-laptop:/var/log$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

Mounting smbfs using this row in fstab:
//192.168.x.x/multimedia /media/Multimedia smbfs iochareset=utf8,credentials=/some/file/name,uid=1000 0 0

Revision history for this message

Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2009-03-25:

Duplicate of bug 211631

The community doc you point to was never an official solution, as it breaks other functionality (like having /usr on NFS). At that point mounting network filesystems at boot while using NetworkManager to handle your network (rather than editing /etc/network/interfaces) is not really supported.

Please also see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-March/027770.html for a discussion on how to fix it.