Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #616287
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 616287

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Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann) wrote :

For me (no KDE relation), it's probably a problem in /etc/init.d/sendsigs. At system shutdowns that end with "mount: / is busy") and an unclean filesystem, I can always spot this message a few lines above:

killall5: omit pid buffer size 16 exceeded!

* I did some tracing, the issue seems to be the last killall5 call which fails, and failure is NOT checked.

* It so happens that killall5 accepts PID for processes it shouldn't kill, but only up to 16 (seems to be configured at compile-time). In sendsigs, the list of PIDs to omit is created as OMITPIDS. It typically has got more than 16 PIDs in it on my system.