[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Re: Bug#419049: quota: Causes shutdown

[Michael Biebl]

John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> No, actually I don't quite agree that it's a bug in network-manager.
>> I'd argue that quota (and also the nfs umount script) shouldn't rely on
>> a arbitrary priority number during shutdown.
>> The real fix actually would have to happen within the init system. Our
>> current init scheme is simply not flexible enough for that.
>> I can do nothing about that in network-manager, that's why I reassign
>> the bug again.
> 
> But why is networkmanager taking the interfaces down at a different
> point in the sequence than ifupdown?  Surely it would be best to have

My first email tried to explain that. network-manager relies on other
services which are brought done at an earlier point in the shutdown process.

> both systems take down interfaces at the same time, or else other
> problems like this are bound to occur.

Well, the right fix obviously is, to unmount the nfs share/stop the
quota system based on when the interface is actually brought down.
But I'm not sure if that can be cleanly solved within our current sysv
init system.

Cheers,
Michael

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