[lug] Reboot hangs

[Hugh Brown]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 9/19/06, Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/18/2006, "Hugh Brown" <hugh at math.byu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm guessing
>> it's NFS, that seems to be the only thing that still hangs Linux for me
>> these days.  USB used to but it's better since late 2.4 kernels.
> 
> I' guessing it's something else, unless Debian stable NFS is really
> screwed up. We run really heavy duty NFS usage at work on RH6.2,
> RH7.2, RHEL3, RHEL4 servers and desktops, and I've never seen a
> shutdown fail due to NFS. Actually, I've almost never seen a shutdown
> fail period.
> 


I've seen shutdown fail because of a hard NFS mount being unavailable 
(the nfs server wasn't visible on the network).

Hugh