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unmount samba shares during shutdown

Asked by Udo Eisenbarth

Hi,

I have mounted smb/cifs share automatically during startup of Ubuntu with an entry in fstab. Startup and working with this setup works quite well. However a problem occurs during shutdown. It looks to me that the network connection is shut down BEFORE the smb share is unmounted. Therefore the system hangs during shutdown until a timeout occurs.
If I manually unmount the share before shutting down everythings works fine.
The question is: What should I change in order to get the share unmounted before the network connection is shut down?

Regards,

Udo Eisenbarth

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thanks for this question.

I have created a bug report for this.

I hope this helps.

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Martin Jacobson (jacobson-martin) said : 		#2

Well, here's a work-round: I created a script called "cifs" in /etc/init.d that contains the following:

#! /bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/bin
. /lib/init/vars.sh

. /lib/lsb/init-functions
. /lib/init/mount-functions.sh

if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
        . /etc/default/locale
        export LANG
fi

do_start() {
           log_action_msg "Mounting CIFS filesystems"
           mount -t cifs //edmini.local/family /mnt/family -ouser=me,password=secret
}

do_stop() {
 umount /mnt/family
}

case "$1" in
  start|"")
        do_start
        ;;
  restart|reload|force-reload)
        echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
  stop)
        do_stop
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: cifs [start|stop]" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

You just have to make sure the script gets called at the right times during startup and shutdown... I'm still working on that bit!

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