This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Mon May 20 19:12:35 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16786 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:12:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.9.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA29869; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:59:29 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id <153944-8100>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:02:30 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <153844-8100>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:02:20 -0500 Received: from cowboy.net ([206.103.98.250]:3882 "EHLO cowboy.net" ident: "root") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <153682-8100>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:02:07 -0500 Received: from alien.cowboy.net (jga@alien.cowboy.net [206.103.98.193]) by cowboy.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA06287; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:50:02 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:59:09 -0600 (CST) From: Joseph Anthony Reply-To: Joseph Anthony To: Mark Orr Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: RE: unmount fails In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing-dig Well I run Debian 2.0, and my sysvinit is version 2.75-3 .. can I hand compile over the debs or can I remove the deb and install the sysvinit from sunsite?? 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 > >  > --- ************************************* * Joseph Anthony * * jga@cowboy.net * * http://wasteland.cowboy.net * * ------------------------------- * * System Administrator Cowboy.net * * http://www.cowboy.net * ************************************* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/