Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: at halt/reboot: umount: device /dev/hda5 busy (=/usr) | Date | 7 Mar 1997 08:05:12 +0100 |
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Eirik Fuller wrote: : : I recently made an interesting discovery. I was trying to umount /usr : from a rescue disk, and got the same error (device busy). I was able to : get past that with "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib umount /usr", i.e. telling the : dynamic linker to ignore /usr prevented /usr from being busy during the : umount. Later, I noticed that I was able to umount /usr even without : specifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH, after running ldconfig with /usr unmounted. : Obviously, something loaded a library from /usr. You can do "ldd /bin/umount" to check which libraries are loaded from where.
Myself, I got tired about all this nonsense. I just put "umount -o remount -r /usr" after the "umount -a" line; that has stopped all the nonsense.
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