[arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.
If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way?
Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bannisterc.bannis...@gmail.com wrote: If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way? Well, yes. Shutting down the processes is not very clean. SIGTERM and later SIGKILL are sent to all processes to tell them to die. The /etc/rc.d/ daemons have a clean way of shutting down, so those are done first. There's no way to say send a SIGTERM to all processes except those started by rc.d scripts so I can shut those down cleanly If this is truely caused by mpd, I believe our mpd DOES ship with a rc.d script, and you can configure your user in the /etc/conf.d/ file. This way mpd will be stopped cleanly on shutdown
Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.
2009/6/15 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bannisterc.bannis...@gmail.com wrote: If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way? Well, yes. Shutting down the processes is not very clean. SIGTERM and later SIGKILL are sent to all processes to tell them to die. The /etc/rc.d/ daemons have a clean way of shutting down, so those are done first. There's no way to say send a SIGTERM to all processes except those started by rc.d scripts so I can shut those down cleanly If this is truely caused by mpd, I believe our mpd DOES ship with a rc.d script, and you can configure your user in the /etc/conf.d/ file. This way mpd will be stopped cleanly on shutdown Yeah, I build mpd from git and run it as a user not as a daemon which why the problem occurs, ive worked around it by changing soundoff to kill the processes instead of echoing the name to shell.
Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.
Chris Bannister schrieb: If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way? This makes no sense. Why would you unload a driver on shutdown? There is no reason to do this. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.
2009/6/15 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: Chris Bannister schrieb: If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way? This makes no sense. Why would you unload a driver on shutdown? There is no reason to do this. What do you mean? OSS removes itself from modules during the daemon shutdown.
Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.
Chris Bannister schrieb: This makes no sense. Why would you unload a driver on shutdown? There is no reason to do this. What do you mean? OSS removes itself from modules during the daemon shutdown. Maybe it does, but it makes no sense to do it. It only causes trouble (as you are describing) and has no benefit. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
