On 8/16/07, Orion Poplawski orion@cora.nwra.com wrote:
NetworkManager is currently (in devel and F7) unusable with autofs and NFS mounts. This is because NetworkManager is stopped very early in the shutdown process (K02) and brings down the network with it. Then when autofs attempts to unmount any automounted nfs mounts, they fail because the remote machine is not accessible. Eventually the machine hangs trying to unmount the last nfs mounted directory. I suppose it might timeout eventually, but it's beyond my patience to wait that long.
Questions:
Why is NetworkManager shutdown so early?
Should autofs/nfs shutdown do a forced unmount if needed? Would that
work?
- Do we need tighter NIS/autofs integration into NetworkManager?
Moving forward we need much tighter integration with all NetworkManager and all network services on the machine. What I have done to reduce contention as well as boot time is to remove the following services from my init process
iscsi iscsid ntpd autofs sshd avahi-daemon avahi-dnsconfd yum-updatesd
They all now are started by custom scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. Yes I know that theoretically autofs doesn't below there because it can mount non network drives, but I don't use that so it is there now.
I can pass some of my stuff along if you are interested.
Jon