Strange failure of smbfs and /mnt

[Michael Hipp]

I'm getting odd failures of some smb mounts from my desktop RH9 system 
to a RH9 server. The mountpoints just seem to go south. Other machines 
don't seem to be seeing the failure. The server logs look clean. I've 
pasted in everything pertinent below that I could think of.

Worst part is it seems the only way to fix it is a reboot.

Any ideas?

Michael

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Here's what is in my rc.local that sets these up at boot time:

mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,uid=michael,gid=michael 
//linux/public /mnt/public &
mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,uid=michael,gid=michael 
//linux/shared /mnt/shared &
mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,uid=michael,gid=michael 
//linux/backups /mnt/backups &
mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,uid=michael,gid=michael 
//linux/aae /mnt/aae &

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Here is how the processes look after the failure:

root      2621  0.0  0.2  4560 1808 ?        S    06:43   0:00 
/sbin/mount.smbfs //linux/shared /mnt/shared -o rw username  password  uid
root      2625  0.0  0.1  3312 1356 ?        S    06:43   0:00 -:0

(Note that the one is still working)

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/var/log/messages is full of this:

Feb  2 07:41:04 michael kernel: smb_retry: no connection process
Feb  2 07:41:35 michael last message repeated 96 times
Feb  2 07:42:38 michael last message repeated 204 times
Feb  2 07:43:42 michael last message repeated 180 times

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It's like the mountpoints have disappeared:

# ls -l /mnt
ls: /mnt/public: Input/output error
ls: /mnt/backups: Input/output error
ls: /mnt/aae: Input/output error
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 14 23:54 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 14 23:54 floppy
drwxr-xr-x    1 michael  michael      4096 Jan 27 21:28 shared

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The mount table has lost them:

# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
//linux/shared on /mnt/shared type smbfs (0)

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Attempting to mount them again fails:

# mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,uid=michael,gid=michael 
//linux/public /mnt/public &
[1] 3296
Could not resolve mount point /mnt/public

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