I have no answers, but I have also observed it with Samba mounts.  It
seems repeated use of Ctrl-Alt-Delete in the "frozen" shutdown phase can
give it the prodding it needs to finally shutdown.

Damon 

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 11:43, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> I've recently been bitten again by something that happens occasionally.
> 
> Situation:
> computerA exports a filesystem F
> computerB NFS mounts filesystem F
> computerA shuts down, dies, breaks, or ...
> 
> computerB cannot umount filesystem F, and various things break (I had
> rpm break this time).  computerB cannot even shutdown cleanly, because
> of the NFS problem.
> 
> Question:  Is there a way to force the umount?  (umount -f is supposed
> to do this, I think, but I have never seen it work.)
> 
> Brian.
> 
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