From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: Shutdown doesnt unmount Date: 8 Sep 1993 05:51:55 GMT
In a previous article, levinson@vax.sonoma.edu () says:
>Okay. I got BOOTUTILS and installed the new mount, umount, rdev and fsck. I
>noticed that if I did a shutdown now, and when the system goes to single user,
>I type umount -a, then reboot all is well (VFS doesnt say it is mounting
>unchecked filesystem and e2fsck skips its check)
>
>However, any other shutdown command does not unmount root. Is there a newer
>shutdown command? I tried creating the file /etc/brc and placed
>
>umount -a
>
>in it, but still no luck. It looks like shutdown does not run umount.
>
Just a hunch, but you might want to try:
find / -name umount -print
:^)
I ran into the same thing caused by a duplicate umount. Otherwise, just
make sure you've rdev'ed your kernel properly. It took me a couple hours
to get bootutils going... it was one of those packages where just when I
was nearly ready to give up on it, it began working perfectly for no
apparent reason.
You're using the system V style "init", aren't you? That could also be a
factor. I think v. 2.4 is the latest.
-- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu