After upgrading to Armbian 26.2, I noticed that if I mounted a network drive (samba, cifs) and even accessed it, and then tried to unmount it (sudo umount -t cifs ...), the system would freeze. Upgrading from Debian 12 (bookworm) to Debian 13 (trixie) didn't help. I did a rollback to Armbian 25.x via backup, and this problem doesn't exist there.

I tried various parameters when mounting and unmounting, such as: sudo umount -f /media/..., but the system still hangs. You can't connect to the device via SSH in a new session. If you force a reboot (or sudo systemctl poweroff ) without unmounting it, it won't happen, and you won't be able to connect via SSH. Physically disconnecting the cable also doesn't help.

Edited December 4, 2025Dec 4 by tutralex

Hi,
how do you mount the share? It might be that systemd manages the mount in newer systems, then, to umount you have to simply

systemctl stop your-share.mount

You can check with:

systemctl list-units --type=mount --all

To see if the mount is systemd managed

Hi,

sudo systemctl stop media-nano-Z.mount

it really works, but if you forget to do it manually, then when you try to reboot or turn off the single-board computer, it will freeze, because it tries to unmount the disk itself, apparently using umount.

 

Okay, I did all this after upgrading to Armbian 26.2.0-trunk.86 trixie armv7l, and when I tried to unmount the drive the old way with umount, I found that everything worked. It looks like the problem is already fixed.

Edited December 19, 2025Dec 19 by tutralex
Additions.