Clint, I don't see the dhclient process die when network-manager is
stopped.  But I think I was guilty of some fuzzy thinking in saying that
the problem is due to the pid file being held open;  the problem is that
the dhclient pid file isn't deleted from /var/run/sendsigs.omit.d (so
/etc/init.d/sendsigs doesn't kill dhclient at shutdown time)  *and*
dhclient has a dhcp lease file open for write.  The following should (I
hope) show what I'm talking about:

$ ps auxw | grep NetworkManager | grep -v grep # NetworkManager and dhclient 
are both running
$ ls /var/run/sendsigs.omit.d #  there are pid files for both dhclient and 
dnsmasq
$ sudo stop network-manager
$ ps auxw | grep NetworkManager | grep -v grep # now only dhclient is still 
running
$ ls /var/run/sendsigs.omit.d # and the dhclient pid file is still there
$ sudo lsof -c dhclient | grep lease #  dhclient still has a lease file open 
for write

Because sendsigs won't kill dhclient and the lease file is open for
write, /etc/init.d/umountroot fails and the filesystem must be
recovered.   And dhclient still has libc .so files open as well,  which
is what leads to orphaned inodes if those files have been overwritten
during a libc upgrade.

If the dhclient pid file was removed from /var/run/sendsigs.omit.d when
network-manager is stopped, then sendsigs would kill dhclient at
shutdown.   Or, if dhclient could be terminated when network-manager
shuts down, that should work too.  I don't understand enough to guess
why the pid files are written to sendsigs.omit.d in the first place...

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