On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:18:03 -0400 (EDT), K. Haselhorst wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> But where exactly is the failure occuring? >> Does the mount command fail? >> Does the pivot_root command fail? Does exec chroot fail? > > The umount command fails with "device is busy". privot root and chroot > work fine.
So everything works except the umount. Interesting. From the example in the man page they obviously expect it to be possible to umount the old root file system. >> Kill should be able to kill any process *except* init itself. >> And "telinit -u" should be able to refresh init. > > I did a telinit u after the chroot and killed the remaining processes. > After that lsof doesn't show any open files under old-root but umount > still fails with "device is busy". Maybe lsof doesn't necessarily list everything. What does "fuser -m /old_root" show? What about doing "fuser -k -m /old_root"? -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/814445304.21091291269358324667.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
