On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Mark Orr wrote:
>
> On 12-Jan-99 Joseph Anthony wrote:
> > I have noticed that on shutdown "/" and sometimes another partition will
> > fail to unmount saying that the device is "busy", then next time I boot it
> > forces a check and changes the filesystem.. this scares me.. this is with
> > 2.2.0-pre4 - pre6
>
> Ooh...I recently had this problem too. Was a devil to figure out what
> was causing it...since I'm constantly upgrading utilties and programs.
>
> I tried recompiling mount (from Util-linux), Sysvinit, e2fsck...going back
> to older versions.
>
> The problem showed up for me shortly after upgrading to Sysvinit 2.76.
>
> I found a message from Miquels van smoorenburg (sp? he's the author/maintainer
> of Sysvinit) stating that it's a
> bug in glibc-2.0.7 that has been fixed in some new redhat patch collection.
> Since glibc takes forever to compile, i didnt fix it that way.
>
> The bug shows up when your sysvinit (/sbin/init) is NOT compiled -static.
> (I thought I might save a little memory by compiling it dynamically)
>
> Recompile the Sysvinit utils w/ the -static flag. There's a make variable
> that's set undefined in the Makefile. Change it to STATIC=-static.
> recompile....reboot a couple of times, and it should go away.
>
> Mark Orr
> markorr@intersurf.com
>
>
>
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