You have been subscribed to a public bug: Ever since some update in the Quantal pre-releases, having dnsmasq-base installed will cause the root filesystem to not be properly unmounted on shutdown and reboot. In case the Plymouth splash screen is disabled, the message 'mount: / is busy' will be shown, but otherwise the user will not even be aware of this problem.
After rebooting, the root filesystem needs recovery, as shown in dmesg: kevin@vbox-xubuntu-quantal:~$ dmesg | grep EXT4 [ 1.022746] EXT4-fs (sda2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 1.022750] EXT4-fs (sda2): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 1.248294] EXT4-fs (sda2): recovery complete [ 1.248661] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 1.456315] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Yet again, the user will not be aware of this until it is too late. The only way to avoid this from happening (or at least what I've found) is running 'sudo apt-get purge dnsmasq-base'. Sadly, this also removes network-manager and network-manager-gnome, so it isn't really a viable solution. Another problem that might be related is that having an active connection with the Network Manager prior to shutting down or rebooting, will cause the process to hang for a few seconds, after which the message about / being busy is shown. Stopping the network service (sudo service networking stop) will solve the hanging, but not the unclean unmount. So far, only purging dnsmasq-base seems to do that, which obviously also solves the other problem, as Network Manager will then also be removed. Although I haven't experienced it yet, this could cause potential data loss; especially for users without a seperate /home partition. ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.5.3-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Sep 30 12:49:24 2012 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: dnsmasq-base 2.63-1ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4 SourcePackage: dnsmasq Tags: quantal Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: In Progress ** Tags: busy dnsmasq-base is mount network-manager quantal root unclean unmount -- In Quantal, the root filesystem is not cleanly unmounted at shutdown or reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058987 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp