Hey David..

Thanks for the thoughts on this...

Would you mind posting/pasting what your code/shell scripts are/is.. I'm
sure someone will need something similar in life!


-Peace!


On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:26 PM, David A. De Graaf <d...@datix.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 02:53:34PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:37:41 -0400
> > David A. De Graaf wrote:
> >
> > > Have I overlooked something obvious?  Is there a way to make systemd
> > > perform the simple function 'shutdown' smoothly, reliably and quickly?
> > > If anyone knows how, I would love to hear it.
> >
> > I can't make systemd itself work, but I've been using an
> > outside systemd solution for a while now: I setup
> > an alias for the "reboot" command that arranges to
> > kill off all the things systemd unreasonably waits
> > for, then does a real reboot.
> >
> > Since systemd now has nothing to stop it, it reboots
> > rather fast (until something new shows up which I have
> > to track down and add to my list :-).
> >
> > My current set of things to do before shutdown includes:
> >
> > umount -l -t nfs -a
> > apachectl -k stop
> > kill all the "user deamon" process trees.
> >
> > The user daemon stuff is handled by a program
> > described here:
> >
> > http://tomhorsley.com/game/punch.html
> >
>
> Thank you Tom Horsley for all your brilliant insights,
> and especially this one.
>
> I have taken your 'locate-user-daemons.c' program, lock, stock
> and barrel, stirred with some other condiments and come up with
> this alternate /usr/local/bin/reboot script that works for me:
>
>   $ cat /usr/local/bin/reboot
>   #   Precede normal reboot command with unmounting of nfs mounts
>   #   and stop other impediments to progress
>   /usr/local/bin/nfsumount
>   /usr/bin/pkill -9 gkrellmd
>   /usr/local/bin/locate-user-daemons | /bin/bash -i
>   systemctl reboot
>
> where /usr/local/bin/nfsumount contains:
>   #   Forcibly umount all autofs-mounted filesystems
>   mount | grep /net/ |
>       sed -e 's/.*on //' | sed -e 's/ .*//' |
>       sort -u | tac |
>   while read fn; do
>       umount -fl -t nfs $fn &
>   done
>
> Your simpler  'umount -l -t nfs -a'  works for mounts listed
> in /etc/fstab, but not for autofs-mounted filesystems, I believe.
>
> I (re)discovered that gkrellmd takes a full 90 sec to be stopped
> by systemd, but no time at all by pkill;  I added that.
> As you say, more may turn up.
>
> Now the 'reboot' command makes my systems shut down smoothly, reliably
> and quickly, as proper Linux systems should.
>
> --
>         David A. De Graaf    DATIX, Inc.    Hendersonville, NC
>         d...@datix.us         www.datix.us
>
>
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