Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:30:23 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: shutdown and not unmounting root |
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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". > Does anybody have any clues as I don't have any. I once tried Andrea's > busy inode patch but this one didn't emit anything.
I can confirm this report. On one of my machines it happens quite often, on the others never. Several times when it happened I scanned /proc for open files and there were none.
Ralf
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