Current-Users archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

Re: repeated failure to properly shutdown



    Date:        Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:11:50 -0400
    From:        "Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20160722071150.5248712b562feea8d5c89980%fastmail.fm@localhost>

  | Might this be a good moment to test them out and commit them?

Perhaps, but not really as a fix for the current problem -- we already
know, from what we have been told, that not doing the tmpfs umount
avoids the crash ... what I, at least, would like to find is why the
crash happens at all, rather than just work around it.

If it turns out that the tmpfs being umounted is /dev (and not /var/shm
which is the only tmpfs in Brad's fstab - but which is unlikely to have
any union mounts anywhere near it - and not something else that is being
mounted some other way) then we should be able to reproduce the exact
environment, and work out why the crash happens, and then fix it.

That won't make umounting a tmpfs /dev any more rational to do though
(but just a tmpfs that happens to contain a device node is perhaps not
the right test for what to avoid, and manual specification when that fails
to DTRT isn't a great alternative.)

kre



Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index