In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Baron  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Several posters, including myself, have cited problems umounting the file 
>systems on shutdown with recent 2.6.8 kernels. This may be caused by timing 
>problems leaving the file systems busy. I got rid of the error messages and 
>got almost all clean file systems on restart by using umount -l ("lazy 
>umount") and a sleep to let things settle down.
>
>One of the file systems is ALWAYS recovering its journal on restart (mounts 
>to /usr/share). It is found clean and everything is OK, but ...
>
>I tried a sync before umount. Did not help. In the umountfs script, it might 
>be too late since all processes have been killed off. The journal service for 
>each FS is a process, is it not?

No.

>So I put the sync, followed by a sleep, in 
>the script before the killall's. Did not help there either.
>
>Any other ideas?

Yes, try to put a "fuser -vm /usr/share; sleep 10" in the script,
after the killalls. That will perhaps tell you what is keeping
the mountpoint busy.

Mike.
-- 
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes
 a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell.


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