On Dienstag, 7. März 2017 00:12:06 CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of > > directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked > > find. > > > > About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and > > work as usual as long as you keep using them. AFAICT, if they sit > > idle for "a while" (tens of minutes, maybe an hour), they freeze up. > > It finally dawned on me that I had changed something. > > It's a kernel 4.9 problem. > > I had built and installed a gentoo-sources 4.9.6-r1 kernel about a > month ago, but didn't update the grub configuration and reboot until > two weeks ago. > > Rebooting with the 4.4.39 kernel fixes the problem. > > [I also tried just rebooting the 4.9.4 kernel, but that didn't help.] > > The configuration of the 4.9.4 kernel is as close to that of the > 4.4.39 as I can get. > > I guess I'll have to stick with the 4.4 series until this gets fixed.
I'm glad you found the source of the problem and a workaround. However, the 4.9 series is now at 4.9.13. Have you tried that, too? HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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