Package: linux-image-2.6-686
Version: 2.6.25+14
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining debian's kernel packages.
They're a remarkable technology in more ways than
one.
Here's how I duplicate the bug.
1.) $ shutdown -r now
2.) ctl-alt-F7
3.) look quickly for something like
"mount: / is busy"
4.) After the system has rebooted, if the root
filesystem is EXT3, look for
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
in /var/log/messages.
If the root filesystem is EXT2, I get a long,
slow fsck recovery.
It seems to me that this can be partially
explained by the shutdown command running a
script named
/etc/init.d/umountroot
which calls the "mount" command to remount the
root file system as read only.
It fails, and complains that
"/ is busy"
Since the root file system wasn't cleanly
unmounted, it'll be recovered during the next
boot.
I investigated other processes interfering with
the root file system, without result.
However, it seems that inserting
"cat /proc/mounts"
just before the (re)mount command in
/etc/init.d/umountroot
usually allows mount to complete.
As an aside, the words "mount" and "remount" occur
hundreds of times in the changelog for 2.6.26.
Frankly, I'm a little worried about data
corrutpion.
Thanks,
Kingsley
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-686 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 2.6.25-6 Linux 2.6.25 image on PPro/Celeron
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