Fix slow Ubuntu shutdown with CIFS (SMBFS)
My Ubuntu machine at home always takes a bazillion years to turn off. I've been seeing this "Server not responding" error forever, but I've just ignored it. An explanation from the article "Five things to do on a freshly installed Ubuntu":
CIFS: Unmount CIFS shares before shutting down the network
There is a very nasty bug in Ubuntu, which occurs, if you use NetworkManager and have any active CIFS share while shutting down your system. If you do that, you'll experience a timeout while shutting down, lengthening it by ~30 seconds per share. You'll also get the message CIFS VFS: Server not responding.
There is a bug entry on launchpad, but it is not yet fixed. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround.
There is a very nasty bug in Ubuntu, which occurs, if you use NetworkManager and have any active CIFS share while shutting down your system. If you do that, you'll experience a timeout while shutting down, lengthening it by ~30 seconds per share. You'll also get the message CIFS VFS: Server not responding.
There is a bug entry on launchpad, but it is not yet fixed. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround.
Here are my simplified instructions:
cd /etc/init.dThat ought to take care of it.
sudo wget http://www.jejik.com/files/examples/umountcifs
sudo chmod ugo+x umountcifs
sudo update-rc.d umountcifs stop 02 0 6 .
2 comments:
This solved it! Thanks, now my mythtv box shuts down without idling forever.
Thanks for this. This seems to have solved the problem for my eee with Ubuntu on shutdown. I still get this when I do a suspend however. I suspect that the fix only runs on shutdown, but I don't know enough about Linux/Ubuntu to activate it for suspend, and I imagine that I could really screw things up. Any ideas? Thanks.
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