[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#392861: sysv-rc: Reboot fails with "exited outside the expected code flow"

[Ryan Richter]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:21:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > The reboot command fails with the message
> > 
> > error: /etc/init.d/rc exited outside the expected code flow.
> > 
> > right after "Killing non-system processes".  Maybe it's killing
> > itself by accident?
> 
> Could this be the case of fuser killing the init.d/rc script by
> mistake, because of bind-mounted virtual file systems, ref bug
> #391375?

That's very likely.  Not only do I have a chroot with things
bind-mounted in it, but the root fs itself is a read-only nfs mount,
with the things that need to be rw bind-mounted from a separate rw nfs
mount.  I'll try the suggestion from #391375 early next week when I get
a chance.

Thanks,
-ryan