On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 13:39, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: >> On 15 May 2011 15:16, Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org> wrote: >>> Just a first quick check of an issue we ran into with ATA disks: >>> what's in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug before you shut down? Or what's >>> CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER in your kernel setup, it must be ="" on modern >>> systems, otherwise the kernel will they to exec() binaries all the >>> time and keep the system's rootfs busy. >> >> I'm also having trouble shutting down with systemd, and I have >> CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" >> So I'll try this solution. Thanks. >> >> Just a quick question: is the same also true for Fedora 14 >> (upstart-1.2, udev-161)? i.e. can and should that config option be >> cleared under that setup too? I guess so, given that /sbin/hotplug >> doesn't even exist. > > Yeah, /sbin/hotplug is ancient history or (broken) embedded-like > setups, it should always be disabled. In earlier udev/init setups we > used to do: echo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, but we don't do it in > systemd setups, that's why it pops up now.
Maybe state that in the README and even check during startup if such thing is set and warn the user? -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel