re: Are these problems being fixed???

["Sam Azer" <sam azertech com>]

Hi Folks,

I was just browsing the November Enigma Archive and saw this thread. Sorry
if this has been hashed over too much already, I have a comment to make;
followed by a quick question:

I have a bunch of dead tasks on my Seawolf 7.1 system (another system
running 7.2 is doing fine.) The tasks all died while trying to read a
directory that was NFS mounted from the 7.2 system. I also had some ISO
files mounted using loop-backs and some SMB mounts. I noticed that any
attempt to run df would cause that task to die. At some point, I unmounted
what I could and manually removed from mtab the mounts that refused to go
away. This allowed me to run df, but I found my daily cron jobs still die
when they hit the NFS mount point (that I removed from mtab manually as it
refused to unmount.)

I also had a bunch of tasks that died after I changed the password on my
Win2k box - all my SMB mounts failed and any task that tried to access the
mount points died. It took me a while to track down the script that was
using the old password.

So, in case it helps: the problem you guys were looking into might have
something to do with mounted file systems.

Still, though, I have a whole bunch of dead tasks. kill -9 and skill -9 have
no effect. Any attempt to rm -Rf the offending NFS mount point results in a
dead task. Everything else in the system works fine.

Can anybody tell me what I can do to get rid of these dead tasks and fix the
stuck NFS mount point? With the SMB/Password problem, correcting the
password and restarting SMB solved the problem. I'm out of ideas for NFS.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Take Care,
Sam.

On Friday 09 November 2001 10:32, you wrote:
> Bill, I am running the stock 2.4.9-13 kernel. Could that be causing the
> problem??? Whatever is going on the system is completely solid until
> 4:02am.
>
> When I come back to the system in the morning the screen saver is frozen
> and I can't get into the system (this is the text logon screen not X). I
> can telnet in from another system that's running 7.1 and check logs etc.
> However, if I try and do a "shutdown -r now" on the 7.2 system it
> completely locks up. BTW, I've come to appreciate the ext3 filesystem!
>
> I've seen messages from others who have had the same