Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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
>
> The process never proceeds beyond that point (as /home is always
> fsck'ed on next startup). I can't see any logs as syslog has already
> been shut down at this point, and it happens whether I shutdown as root
> from the console or by using the KDE widget.
>
> /home here is on LVM
>
> I could probably debug this easily enough if I could determine how the
> shutdown sequence is ordered, or get a verbose output. But sadly, my fu
> for such stuff has run out.
>
> Anyone got pointers on where to start poking around?
>
> [I'm not looking for solutions, I'm unlikely to get those right off the
> bat, just looking for pointers atm]
>
>
>

I would do a 'rc single' then use lsof for /home to see what if anything
is still going on.  I think with openrc, when you go to single user it
unmounts about everything, tho this could have changed since it has been
a while since I went to single user.  Oh, I have had issues going from
single user back to default mode.  It just doesn't work right.  So, be
ready to reboot if needed. 

I ran into a weird issue one time a long time ago.  It turned out it was
the order I had them in fstab.  I think I had /usr/portage above /usr so
as it went down the file, it was trying to mount /usr/portage then
trying to mount /usr.  I thought it rather odd, maybe a bug even, but
changing the order made it work.  Do you maybe have something in a odd
order in fstab?

Well, it's early and I am still half asleep.  Hope that helps.  Going
back to bed.  To wet to go hunting this morning, sleeting too.  Brrrrrr!

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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