[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#490893: initscripts: reboot fails to unmount '/'

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-09-15 13:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Subhashis Roy]
>> Following one of the suggestions in one bug report, I added 'fuser
>> -vm / >> /root/umount.root.err; sync' and found that 'portmap' is
>> still running causing the message that root partition is busy.
>
> This lead to the next question, which is why is portmap still running?
> I know portmap make sure it isn't killed by sendsigs, and thus take
> over the responsibility of existing before reboot.

If only that were true.  Do you remember our discussion in the thread
"Slow shutdown in dependency-based boot system" starting at [0]?  That
problem was tracked down to portmap _not_ writing a pidfile[1], and the
bug[2] I filed against portmap is still open.

However, this does not explain why portmap isn't stopped at all.

Cheers,
       Sven


0. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2008-July/000548.html
1. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2008-July/000553.html
2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490985