My FC2 system allows me to mount SMB shares entered in /etc/fstab/ just fine. But whenever I try to access them in the Nautilus file manager, my entire file system hangs and becomes unreachable. I can still use apps such as terminal and Mozilla, but to get file management back I need to reboot my system.
Is this a known problem?
I believe this is a bug as I and others have had this problem. You can check your /var/log/messages file to see if you have a log entry similar to the following:
smb_lookup: find //.Trash-jos failed, error=-5 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.5) EIP is at 0x0 eax: d9f94c20 ebx: d68a3f30 ecx: c015e7c0 edx: d81c4ae0 esi: d68a3fa0 edi: c1329600 ebp: d44d85e0 esp: d68a3efc ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process nautilus (pid: 6808, threadinfo=d68a2000 task=d6d1cd60) Stack: c01c16d6 d44d85e0 d68a3fa0 c015e7c0 d68a3f30 00000000 00000002 00000004 d43c4ec4 00000000 d43c0000 d81c4ae0 d4ac8b60 00000000 fffe7b2a d44d85e0 00000000 00000000 d43c0000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000004 Call Trace: [<c01c16d6>] smb_readdir+0x3f6/0x5a0 [<c015e7c0>] filldir64+0x0/0x120 [<c015e489>] vfs_readdir+0x89/0xa0 [<c015e7c0>] filldir64+0x0/0x120 [<c015e94e>] sys_getdents64+0x6e/0xaa [<c015e7c0>] filldir64+0x0/0x120 [<c0107009>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
Code: Bad EIP value.
I found a work around from this bug report (http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2642):
killall -STOP nautilus smbmount //your/share /mntpoint killall -CONT nautilus
I can confirm that this procedure works for me as I have not had a hang since using it. You can read the bug report to get details on why this problem might be occurring. This procedure may not help you since you are using fstab to do the mounts, but as a temporary solution you could comment out the fstab entries and mount the shares manually using the procedure above.
-- Paul (ganci@xxxxxxxxxx)