I had used one of my autofs mounts last night on my laptop. This morning I put it to sleep and moved to a different location where that nfs server is not available. I am fully updated to testing repo (as of last night anyway :-) ). (i) pacman hung (tho I understand from https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=e183522e3168c4a31103b3c... that this may be fixed .. tho that was quite quite some time back so maybe something else is happening. (ii) Alerted by the hang - I tried to restart autofs via systemctl restart autofs Perhaps I didn't wait long enough - but this did not complete. (iii) So I rebooted pc. The shutdown hung after systemd reported [ok] for shutting off remote file systems. Again I only waited a few minutes - perhaps it would have timed out after sufficiently long - but how long? (iii) was especially surpising to me - I thought systemd would kill the daemon sooner. Can anyone share What is the right way of dealing with this 'dead autofs mount' issue? Thanks gene/