Hi, I suspect the list will not be overly interested in these due to it being triggered on a non-cutting edge, vendor kernel but I'll post them anyway -- just in case there's an obvious "Debian should take patch-X" to fix this issue in the next Lenny errata kernel. At the time of oops, an lvm snapshot of the XFS home directory is mounted for use by the backup scripts: mkdir -p /tmp/$from; /sbin/lvcreate -s -L 20G -n snap-shot $from && mount -o nouuid,ro /dev/$vgroup/snap-shot /tmp/$from (previously this called xfs_freeze -f / -u too but now lvcreate -s does this itself) When the rsync has finished the following commands are run: umount /tmp/$from ; /sbin/lvremove -f /dev/$vgroup/snap-shot ; rmdir /tmp/$from The umount failed and now we have a stuck mount of the snapshot. I know a reboot will fix the issue but it's both an annoying and infrequent problem. Cheers, Stu.