Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:43:51PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> Frank Blendinger wrote: >> > I want to unmount a busy NFS share, but failed to do so, even with a >> > umount -f. >> >> [...] >> >> > I also tried a ``fuser /mothermole'' to see which process blocks the >> > mountpoint, but that just hangs, I aborted after some minutes. I'm >> >> Just try 'lsof |grep mothermole'. > > This hangs, just as my try with fuser did.
Hmm, this sounds as if /mothermole is in your PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH or whatever. Can you check this? If you don't find anything, try to strace lsof and see where it hangs. > > That b0rked up NFS mount seems to cause a lot of trouble, i.e. updatedb > processes from the last view days are hanging around, blocked, and also > some other programs refuse to start as the try to access that > mountpoint. > > Is there really no other way then rebooting to get rid of this nasty > thing? Processes in D state are difficult to kill. If nothing helps, you could put any other system on the nfs server ip address and export a directory as /mothermole, the processes should die with a stale nfs filehandle. Hope it helps, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]