Files accessed over CIFS hangs while waiting for a pagelock after moving to RHEL6.2
Issue
- Access for data over CIFS hangs after updating to RHEL6.2.
- After the upgrade to RHEL6.2 sometimes the login process stops before the desktop is loaded or applications suddenly freezes.
- When this happens a
synccommand will never return and a machine cannot be cleanly shut down.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (RHEL6.2)
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