Bug#851402: failed unmounting /var during shutdown

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/867
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal

Am 14.01.2017 um 16:37 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-8
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> The box is running stretch, updated from jessie yesterday.
> 
> When the box shuts down, it unmounts all the filesystems.
> 
> When it gets to /var there is a warning: Failed unmounting /var
> 
> 
> I wrote a little wrapper script to put in place of /bin/umount, it calls
> lsof to show what is going on before the real umount call
> 
> The only open files on /var at the time of unmounting appear to be
> journalctl files
> 
> Is this expected?  Is some manual configuration needed to make sure /var
> is unmounted later or should systemd / journald behave better in this
> situation?

Ok this seems to be https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/867

Marking accordingly. As we unmount /var in the systemd-shutdown binary,
I'm downgrading the severity (as it's mostly a cosmetic issue)

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