@Paul I now can confirm your suspicion and reproduce it. I have here a VM with Lucid-amd64 with a snapshot taken on Dec. 3rd an did following:
Boot VM check 'cat /var/log/messages | grep orphan' -> no matches wait ca. 5 minutes till pending updates are reported: 29 alltogether install all updates with exception of libc-bin, libc-dev-bin, libc6, libc6-dev system requests "reboot required", so shutdwon boot-up again check 'cat /var/log/messages | grep orphan' -> no matches install the remaining 4 libc-packages no reboot requested by system! shutdown boot-up again cat /var/log/messages | grep orphan Dec 17 12:16:44 lucid kernel: [ 2.976983] EXT3-fs: sda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs Dec 17 12:16:44 lucid kernel: [ 2.981618] EXT3-fs: sda1: 8 orphan inodes deleted And as expected we get the orphaned inodes. This can be reproduced any time, I just have to revert to the machine's snapshot. If you need further infomation collected, please let me know - it's really easy now. Additional remarks: a) I have purged plymouth completely by using a liberated mountall- package (otherwise I even would not have noticed that bug without watching the boot messages on tty1). b) This did never happen with Debian-Squeeze - so it is Ubuntu specific c) shutdown process here is extremely fast, generally 5 sec. or even less -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616287 Title: umountfs doesn't cleanly unmount / on reboot -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
