** Description changed: + = SRU JUSTIFICATION = + + = IMPACT = + + This bug can cause data corruption in rare cases, and at the very least, + forces fsck on reboot unnecessarily. + + = TEST CASE: = + + 1. apt-get install portmap + 2. apt-get install libc6 --reinstall + 3. reboot + 4. affected systems will show orphaned inodes in 'dmesg' on the next boot. fixed systems should not. + Binary package hint: portmap This is related, but not the same, as bug #672177 portmap should be stopped as soon as it is no longer needed, which is right after NFS filesystems are unmounted. The unmounting is done by unmountnfs.sh from sysvinit. It properly defines an LSB header to say that portmap should be stopped after it. The trouble is that nothing interprets this header anymore as upstart does not support this method of shutdown. When libc6 is upgraded, this means portmap keeps /lib/libc.so.xxxxx open, and so / cannot be remounted as readonly, causing filesystem corruption (this was reported in the comments of bug #672177 by "ingo". So portmap should define an event to stop on and sysvinit should emit that event when it happens.
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