Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-60 Severity: important
In /etc/init.d/umountfs all filesystems except tmpfs are umounted with the force "-f" flag. While I already think it is a bad idea to use the special force flag for everything, it causes real trouble with fuse-filesystems. For fuse-filesystems the force flag will close the /dev/fuse connection and thus the filesystem will abort. If there are still open filedescriptors on the mount point, all further access to these mount points will return "Transport endpoint is not connected" (errno 108). I also think this should be fixed in fuse, however, the author of fuse thinks the present behaviour is correct and so there is presently no way to fix it at kernel level. Please see this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/6579/focus=6592 So there are two options: 1) Entirely remove the force flag. Probably too late for Lenny. 2) Make exeptions for fuse filesystems. I also believe Miklos is right, simply umounting everything is wrong. Umounting /bin, /sbin/, /lib, etc. shouldn't be done at all. IMHO this also should be fixed in Lenny+1. Thanks, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
