Followup to: <000701bfd6c0$1699b420$6a9090d4@talknet>
By author: <Matman@arcormail.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Dear kerneldevelopers!
>
> I tried to run kernel-2.4.0test1-ac19 on a SuSE6.4 system. With the supports
> i selecded it seems to run correct. But at shutdown there is one problem.
> The halt script is unable to umount the devpts filesystem. Is it possible
> that this is a bug in your sourcecode? i tryed to make some changes in the
> halt script. Whithout success. I am not a very experienced script developer,
> so it is possible that i failed by doing necessary changes. And i copy now
> the relevant files into this mail, so you can see if it is a bug or not. I
> would be glad if you let me know what i have to change in the scripts, if
> you know a god possibility and this message is no bug.
>
Make sure you don't have any pty's open at the time you try to
shutdown. If you're typing "halt" in an xterm, for example, it may
not be able to close the pty.
It really shouldn't matter anyway. devpts doesn't contain any
persistent state.
-hpa
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