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

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/36506: /etc/rc.d/amd prohibits reboot if amd owns /home
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:23:37 -0400

 On Jun 18,  9:20pm, tron@zhadum.org.uk (Matthias Scheler) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/36506: /etc/rc.d/amd prohibits reboot if amd owns /home
 
 | 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
 
 It happens when processes are keeping the nfs directories busy. I think
 that most of the fixes are in the newest stable release, but I will
 import a newer one.
 
 christos