Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-56 Severity: normal
Hello On a live system the / filesystem is usually a union mount of a readonly base and a tmpfs overlay. The initscripts try quite hard to break the filesystem if the base is mounted from the network: They kill all processes including processes that support FUSE filesytems (and probably nfs/smbfs/cifs as well) in sendsigs (and probably killprocs). They also umount all filesystems with umount -f which kills the FUSE filesystem. The comment explicitly says it is menat to kill NFS filesystems. Both can cause ugly error messages on shutdown or even prevent the shutdown completely if the filesystem is unmounted and poweroff or halt is not cached. I have seen this problem with httpfs root on a live Debian system. However, this could possibly cause problems with any setups where the / filesystem is on the network. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.3-src (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprogs 1.40.8-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1-3 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-56 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
