Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2007 02:06 schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:33:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > when shutting down my etch system, I get a > > > > umount /var: Device busy > > Failed > > > > During the next reboot the /var partition is checked, but there is never > > an inconsistency found, looks like the partition is at least synced > > during shutdown. > > > > The only uncommon thing at this system, I remember: > > I upgraded the system twice from woody to sarge and recently from sarge > > to etch, though I am not sure if the problem came with the upgrade. > > > > Does anybody have an idea how I could find out why the device is busy? > > As root: > > ~#cp /usr/bin/lsof . > > So you can run this command with /usr/ unmounted. > > Run the /etc/rc0.d scripts manually in order K** before S** giving each > the parameter Stop. > > Just before running S40umountfs, type > > ~#./lsof > > and see what files are still open. > > Then run S40umountfs and watch. > > If there is an error again as you describe, > > ~#./lsof > > To see what is still open. > > The result may provide some clew.
Many thanks for your response. I added the lsof commands to /etc/init.d/umountfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ diff -u /etc/init.d/umountfs.orig /etc/init.d/umountfs --- /etc/init.d/umountfs.orig 2007-08-23 23:22:27.000000000 +0200 +++ /etc/init.d/umountfs 2007-08-24 19:57:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -157,7 +157,11 @@ exit 3 ;; stop) + lsof /var | tee /lsof.log + sleep 10 do_stop + lsof /var | tee /lsof2.log + sleep 10 ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2 Unfortunately this does not give me any clue: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /lsof.log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /lsof2.log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Are there other reasons than an open file, why a partition will not umount? > If /var/ won't unmount, before continuing with the shutdown process: > > ~#umount -r /var > > This may work to remount /var in read-only. > Have not yet tried that, but as another data point, I noticed that the problem does not show up on every shutdown, only sometimes, but I cannot see any rule when this happens. Many thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/