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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]