On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:19:46PM +0200, Nick Jacobs wrote:
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.16.2-0
> Severity: critical
> Tags: squeeze
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> I inserted a cdrom into the cdrom drive. Debian Squeeze detected that
> and started mount automatically. It couldn't mount the disk (possibly
> the drive or the disk is faulty). But instead of giving up cleanly,
> mount just hung in an unkillable state (kill -9 by root did not kill it).
> It was then impossible to shutdown the system, I guess because shutdown
> tries to kill all processes and couldn't kill mount.
> The only way to shutdown or restart the system was by killing the power!
> This is not acceptable.
This sounds rather like a bug in the CDROM driver. Is this reproducible?
Can you send the output of "ps aux" and "lsof" for such a state?
Cheers,
Moritz
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