Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:13:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mike <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0p6: autofs bug! unmountable filesystem |
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Chris Evans wrote: > > > I can reproduce a autofs bug whereby the autofs filesystem cannot be > > unmounted. > > Probably not. Try kill -9'ing the automount process for that filesystem > and then umount /misc > That doesn't help. It still won't unmount.
> > Now, /misc cannot be unmounted, it is permanently reported as busy. Not > > good. > > "Oh no, root can break my system.." > It is a bug. It may not be a serious bug, but it is still a bug. There is a difference between root being able to break a system by doing something entirely reasonable (and unmounting automounted cdroms is a fairly reasonable thing to expect to be able to do) and root being able to break it by doing something patently silly.
-- Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>
A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
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