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