[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#477498: smbfs: Shutdown & Reboot script try umount CIFS but CIFSD is killed first

[Renato S. Yamane]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Renato S. Yamane:
>> Package: smbfs
>> Version: 3.0.28a-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> mount -t smbfs -o username=USER,passwd=PASSWORD,iocharset=utf8 
>> //192.168.1.11 /mnt/MS_SHARED
>>
>> $df -Th (only relevants output is showed):
>> File System	Type	Size	Used	Avalilable	Mounted at
>> //192.168.1.11	cifs	223Gb	156Gb	68Gb		/mnt/MS_SHARED
>>
>> If you shutdown or reboot, you can see (after 30s timeout):
>>
>> CIFS VFS: Server not responding
>> CIFS VFS: No response for cmd <number> mid <number>
>>
>> Maybe this is happening because CIFSD is killed by shutdwon/reboot 
>> script *before* umount command.
> 
> However, none of these is under control of something provided by the
> samba packages.
> 
> Unmounting cifs volumes is done by the umountnfs init script.
> 
> Killing the cifsd daemon (which I suppose is a kernel daemon) is done
> by <whatever is doing it>....but nothing from the Samba packages.
> 
> I don't really know whether this should be reassigned to <some
> package> or whether you should look closer to your init script order,
> but I don't see this as belonging to the Samba packages.

reassign 477498 general
thanks