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Avoid a long system lockup related to sleeping shares
Authored by: jelockwood on May 22, '07 09:45:36AM

I have a similar problem.

I login to my laptop at work, put it to sleep, go out of the office, try to wake the laptop and get the SPOD (Spinning Wheel Of Death) for 10+ minutes.

Note: I am not logged in to any Shares but my office network does use an Auto-Mount of a Network Library folder. This is normally invisible to users but as far this problem counts it is still a share and still causes the SPOD in this situation. Also I do only use DHCP.

It [normally] does not cause a problem when I wake my laptop at home since at home I have a permanent VPN link to the office and so it can reconnect to the share without a problem.

If one is in a hurry one can force reboot the laptop (Control, Apple and Power), otherwise it is an [enforced] opportunity to go get a cup of tea.



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Avoid a long system lockup related to sleeping shares
Authored by: afragen on May 22, '07 03:57:14PM
I've got a solution to this one.

http://thefragens.com/pub/unmount.zip

I run a script in a launchd process every 60 seconds. The script checks to see if the router's MAC address is changed or if there is no network connection. If there's a change all afp and sshfs mounts are forcibly unmounted. Let me know if it works for you.

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