Em Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:04:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self escreveu: > inherited some mounts of NFS from client machines, bad >> practice indeed. On your advice have eliminated them. Now I would need >> to wait and see if the problem reoccurs... > > If these are read-only mounts, you might try the "soft" mount option. If > you do this with _writeable_ mounts, you risk badly corrupting data.
I already eliminated them. Will check if this option is relevant to SMB and to the user's needs, thanks! >> But what exactly -KILL not working means? > > Files hung in an I/O wait state aren't killable. This is a characteristic > of most Unix-like systems (it's possible that some more recent Unix-like > OSs have worked around this limitation). However, one of the classically > few reasons for having to reboot a 'Nix box is to clear bad or hung > mounts, SCSI accesses, etc. Great, thanks for the info! This looks like something indeed. Will try to put strace in front of Nautilus... this won't be beautiful with ~20 users and several days between failures, but looks like being necessary. Also will try to lsof a running process with -c nautilus, is that what you meant? Thanks for the tips. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Belo Horizonte, Londrina, SÃo Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5685 2219 Soli Deo Gloria! +55 (11) 9406 7191 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]