On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 +0000 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 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? Only 1 hit - a background ssh process that sets up a bunch of tunnels and port forwards so I can get into the corporate network for anywhere. But I was not able to make the problem re-appear in short reboot cycles. So whatever is hanging the box is something that starts up in the course of work, it doesn't appear to be there directly after a KDE login. I might have to look at my work flow closely to find all those unusual things I do in the course of work. I did manage to see the full shutdown output on the screen with these tests though - it umounts /home then umounts /boot, but the second umount message is never displayed. Seeing as it's just a regular sdb1 partition using ext2 I don;t really think it's getting stuck as the next step starts up. It's more likely to have something to do with /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, > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
