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

[Michael Meskes]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> reassign 419049 quota
> ...
> No, actually I don't quite agree that it's a bug in network-manager.

Maybe in dbus?

> I'd argue that quota (and also the nfs umount script) shouldn't rely on
> a arbitrary priority number during shutdown.

Hmm, looking at the links in /etc/rc6.d it seems to me that we have a
lot of buggy packages then. It cannot be correct IMO to down an
interface while critical server processes are still running. For
instance syslog might still try to remotely log the reboot process but
cannot since the device went away.

> 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.

I'm willing to accept that there should be a solution to have
dependancies in our initscripts that we do not have atm. The biggest
risk IMO is not quota hanging but soem network filesystems not being
unmounted at all. However, I fail to see why this is a quota bug. Would
you please care to elaborate? 

Michael
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