Re: shutdown and not unmounting root

georg.funke@netcologne.de
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:49:31 +0100 (CET)


On 10 Nov, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 02:23:25PM +0000, Dominik Strasser wrote:
>
>> I cannot unmount the root directory in 2.1.126. / is on /dev/hdd3, hda
>> and hdb aren't connected (the IDE controller is not working) hdc
>> contains an NT volume. I use mount 2.9e (from util-linux 2.9e) but mount
>> 2.8 didn't work either. I am not sure when this behavior started but it
>> must have been the 2.1.11* series.
>> After the kill -9 -1 in /etc/rc.d/rc.6, there are only 3 processes:
>> kflushd, kswapd, sh rc.6 which do not hold any files. umount -a just
>> gives "/ busy".

I see the same on my new REDHAT 5.1 System.

In linux/Documentation/Changes there is a section who describes this
problem with glibc (aka libc6). There is also a solution for this
problem

Georg

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