[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#436703: #436703: /sbin/shutdown fails to properly spindown drive

[Roland Stigge]

Hi,

Eric Valette wrote:
> had some trouble finding the file I had to patch but managed
> (debian/patches/67_init_hddown.dpatch.orig).

You should patch debian/patches/67_init_hddown.dpatch, not *.orig. 
Recompile ("dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot") and "dpkg -i sysvinit_*.deb". 
Shutdown. The warning should be gone. (For me, it works in this situation.)

You can also download a fixed version of the binary package from 
http://people.debian.org/~stigge/packages/

 > Unfortunately this does not
> fix my problem allthough  have a system that support the feature (see below)
> 
> uname -a
> Linux tri-yann3 2.6.22.5 #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 25 21:07:19 CEST 2007
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> ls /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk\:3\:0\:0\:0
> allow_restart  cache_type  device  FUA  manage_start_stop  subsystem  uevent

Yes, the "feature" (sysfs file present) should lead to shutdown _not_ 
shutting down the drive so the kernel can do it in a safe way.

> BTW, I saw other patches applyed in svn branches to init scripts. Are
> they not relevant?

Which one do you mean? The latest I saw at the point where you mentioned 
it the first time, was already months old.

bye,
   Roland