Usually, a "device busy" error from umount means that some active process is using the partition that umount is trying to unmount. Without more detail, I don't know what that might be at this point in the halt or reboot sequence. You might check this with "lsof" just before you halt or reboot. Indeed, you might even try umount'ing /net by hand, to track down the source of the conflict.
As to "what else is important", it never hurts to mention what Linux distro and version is involved (even if it seems like you are repeating yourself again and again; there's enough traffic on help lists to make it tough for me, and probably others, to remember the configurations others have). Also, *how* you "tried" to disable nfslock and nfs.
Also ... "The only thing I can do is hit the reset button" ... you are probably right, but did you try CTRL-C? It probably won't work right at this spot, but it might ... the shutdown process really is just "init" running a bunch of scripts, and you can sometimes SIGTERM out of them.
At 07:23 PM 10/29/02 -0500, Bryan Simmons wrote:
I'm still recovering from upgrading into almost a completely new system. I thought I didn't install NFS and samba and the other network file system stuff, but it seems it's there anyway.Anyway, when the system is shutting down or rebooting, just after the umount command is given, I get the error: umount2: <something about RPC not being found>: umount /net: device busy and right there, all attempts to shutdown/reboot are ended. The system just sits there. The only thing I can do is hit the reset button. If not for XFS, I'd be running fsck at every frickin reboot. I have an AthlonXP 2100+ system, integrated ethernet, adsl connex (started at boot and not stopped manually at all). Can't think of what else is important here. Can anyone tell me how to make this go away? I tried to disable nfslock and nfs at boot (set to start manually), but it frickin started anyway.
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