On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it
> continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, to
> umount /home

If you logout as your user(s) so only root is logged in, does lsof show
any hits for /home?

I had a similar problem with my MythTV backend failing to unmount /var.
It turned out that mythbackend was failing to shutdown but openrc carried
on trying to shutdown. If I make sure mythbackend really is stopped, the
reboot proceeds normally, which is much better since I had to go into the
loft to reboot the box manually,


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Neil Bothwick

When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said...
"Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a
blanket And sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."