[gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

[gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

[Matthias Fechner]

Hi,

I have here a gentoo diskless system which boots over pxeboot and
mount everything over NFS from my big Gentoo server.

But at shutdown I get the error message:
Failed to simply unmount filesystems
  Unmounting network filesystems (retry #1) ...
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

After some investigation I found a work-around.
I deleted the line
[[ -z $(umount -art ${rcfilesystems} 2>&1) ]]
in /etc/init.d/netmount (function stop() )

I think the problem here is that netmount unmounts all partitions
(including /) and so the shutdown process cannot be continued.

Should not netmount skip unmounting / ?

Best regards,
Matthias

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Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:33:02 +0200
Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have here a gentoo diskless system which boots over pxeboot and
> mount everything over NFS from my big Gentoo server.
> 
> But at shutdown I get the error message:
> Failed to simply unmount filesystems
>   Unmounting network filesystems (retry #1) ...
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> 
> After some investigation I found a work-around.
> I deleted the line
> [[ -z $(umount -art ${rcfilesystems} 2>&1) ]]
> in /etc/init.d/netmount (function stop() )
> 
> I think the problem here is that netmount unmounts all partitions
> (including /) and so the shutdown process cannot be continued.
> 
> Should not netmount skip unmounting / ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Matthias
> 

AFAIK you are correct, this is a bug in a few of the initscripts that
don't behave sensibly if the root fs is network mounted.  

Another one that gets messed up is IPTAbles.  I didn't think much of it
because I figured I was the only person in the world crazy enough to
have a diskless router/firewall.  

Interestingly, some of my diskless hosts do all right with this, others
fail to shut down.  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

[Matthias Fechner]

Hi Dan,

Dan Farrell wrote:
> AFAIK you are correct, this is a bug in a few of the initscripts that
> don't behave sensibly if the root fs is network mounted.  

thx for your answer a raised a bug report with the number: 194967.


Bye
Matthias

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