Re: 2.2.0p6: autofs bug! unmountable filesystem

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:06:14 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > 4) kill -9 `pidof automount userland process`
> > 5) umount /misc <----- fails
> >
> > I have verified that steps 4) and 5) work ok if done without 1) 2) and 3)
> >
>
> 4) is your problem. Sorry, this is Your Fault[TM].

Ah, I think I get it - a graceful shutdown of the userland stuff does some
unregistering with the kernel? So the filesystem can still be unmounted,
if userspace cleans up the mess kill -9 left?

Chris

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