cheers vox,
got impatient though and rebooted, hah! couldn't mount this time, had to 
reboot the other box - again!
i'm hoping that maybe adding 'intr' to the fstab line might help in future?
with umount -l, although the mount point is lo longer attached, there will 
still be hung processes, the ones responsible for 'device busy' messages?

bascule

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 3:47 am, you wrote:
> bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > the process in question is:
> > 040   500 32629     1   9   0 26112 10620 lock_p D   ?          0:00 xmms
> > as you can see, apparently the parent process is 1 i.e. init killing this
> > defeats the objectm which is to not reboot!
> >
> > the lock_p and D look interesting, xmms was playing files on an nfs
> > share from another machine, this box crashed and although it's back
> > up and sharing again, i cn not access the mount point or unmount
> > that mount point, i'm assuming that if i can succed in that then i
> > can deal with xmms?
>
>   Probably. Do an "umount -l /whatever/mountpoint" and then try to
>   mount it again, see if that helps.
>
>   Vox

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