The following reply was made to PR bin/36506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/36506: /etc/rc.d/amd prohibits reboot if amd owns /home
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:19:23 +0100

 On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:27:41PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
 > > Why should that block the reboot?
 > Good question. It shouldn't. All I know is that it does.
 
 I've tried that change. And my usual sequence is to "su" from my
 normale account with a NFS mounted "/home" and use "shutdown"
 afterwards. And I've never encountered problems with that.
 
 What operating system are you running on the client? The latest version
 of amd(8) got pulled up into "netbsd-3" after 3.1 was released.
 
 > > This happened because the amd(8) process got terminated but the
 > > pseudo NFS mounts were still active. The kernel tried to unmount
 > > them but didn't succeed because the NFS request didn't get handled.
 > 
 > We're relying heavily on amd(8) at work for mounting user homes as well as
 > general purpose fileserver storage on NetBSD 1.6 - 3, and RedHat / Debian
 > Linuxes.
 
 I have all the home directories and a lot of other directories mounted
 via amd(8), too.
 
 > I don't debate the scenario you mention is possible, but I haven't seen it.
 
 It only happens to me if the machine has been running for a few weeks.
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/