This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Thu May 2 05:39:17 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 AAA16858 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:24:59 -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 AAA31072; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:12:26 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id <153951-8100>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:15:19 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <153682-8100>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:15:01 -0500 Received: from cowboy.net ([206.103.98.250]:4137 "EHLO cowboy.net" ident: "root") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <153934-8100>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:13:19 -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 XAA06471; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:01:14 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:10:22 -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 OK.. I got it from ther debian source CD and added that -static flag like you said and it compiled and I installed it over the existing ones.. after I did a shutdown -r now it did the same thing.. I assume it doesn't take effect untill after I boot again? Unless it is related to the kernel.. because I have never experienced this until I started using 2.2.0-pre4 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/