System hanging after unmounting a cifs filesystem

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • System hanging after unmounting a CIFS filesystem.
  • The following error appears in the system logs at /var/log/messages:
CIFS VFS: cifs_umount failed with return code - 5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

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