Desktop freeze on NFS share failure

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 19:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 08/16/15 06:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 15:16 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
> > > Why does the desktop freeze whenever an NFS share fails?  I have
> > > set 
> > > all NFS mounts to soft,intr and yet, if I forget to unmount a
> > > share 
> > > before taking down the NFS server, my desktop freezes.
> > Maybe for the same reason my local NFS-mounted NAS starts up any
> > time I
> > open Dolphin, even when I'm just looking at a local directory.
> > Something in KDE wants all possible filesystems available before it
> > allows you to look at anything, or at least it seems that way. I've
> > never bothered trying to pin it down.
> > 
> 
> I am not seeing any desktop "freeze".  I see that dolphin will get
> "stuck" when I open it up since 2 NFS mounts are at my $HOME
> location.  Also, ls will freeze up.
> 
> I didn't uninstall, but I did tell "tracker" not to index anything. 
>  I'm sure someone finds "tracker" useful.  :-)

Ditto, but AFAIK tracker doesn't run from KDE (it describes itself as
"desktop neutral" so it shouldn't cause this issue even if it is
running.

poc