Note that there is one incorrect assumption, which is that sendsigs will never kill any upstart jobs.
In fact, it does make one attempt to kill -9 any still running upstart jobs: if [ -z "$alldead" ] ; then log_action_begin_msg "Killing all remaining processes" #report_unkillable killall5 -9 $OMITPIDS # SIGKILL log_action_end_msg 1 Unfortunately, it doesn't actually wait for this kill -9 to finish, so its still possible to have running processes there corrupting the system. I do think the appropriate fix is to have umountfs emit an 'unmounting- filesystems' event and anything that does a 'start on local-filesystems' or 'start on filesystem' should also 'stop on unmounting-filesystems', causing this to wait for upstart to give up on its jobs (which is nice as they can have their own well defined kill timeout). What I don't know yet, is whether upstart will check to see that its SIGKILL actually ended the job, or just report that it sent it, and move on. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to mysql-5.1 in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/688541 Title: race condition on shutdown (leads to corrupted fs) -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs