umountfs doesn't cleanly unmount / on reboot

[Björn Schließmann]

Binary package hint: initscripts

Sometimes (ca. 50% of cases) when rebooting or turning off the computer, the console shows shortly before shutting down (analogous; plymouth disabled):

[...]
unmounting weak filesystems ...
mount: / is busy
[...]

At next reboot, my root filesystem is recognised as needing recovery, e.g.:
[ 2.720951] EXT4-fs (sda5): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[ 2.721033] EXT4-fs (sda5): write access will be enabled during recovery
[ 4.925307] EXT4-fs (sda5): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
[ 4.939550] EXT4-fs (sda5): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 16472
[ 4.952641] EXT4-fs (sda5): 1 orphan inode deleted
[ 4.952696] EXT4-fs (sda5): recovery complete
[ 5.717403] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 11 12:17:27 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sysvinit

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

This happens almost constantly to me, using Kubuntu 10.04. It occurs on both my laptop and desktop and I am afraid of data loss or corruption.

Is there any workaround?

[Claudio Vincenzo (hyperlinx)]

Got this problem too! And futerer it never shut down, just stay there till i press the power off button manualy.

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

Claudio, can you please post the details of your system? Are you using Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10? Also, which desktop environment do you use? GNOME of KDE? (I have reasons to believe that the problem may be related to KDE 4.5.0)

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

If there is a KDE related problem or a problem with turning off the computer, it would make sense to open a new bug with all details. I'm not using KDE, BTW.

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

Ok, I opened a bug in KDE:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248539.

[wizard10000 (wizard10000)]

Same problem here with Kubuntu 10.04 and KDE 4.5 on both 32- and 64-bit platforms. My machine shuts down every time but FS doesn't unmount cleanly. I added lsof to /etc/init.d/umountfs like this -

... # Unmount local filesystems
lsof > /home/wizard/Documents/lsof.txt
   #
   if [ "$WEAK_MTPTS" ]; then...

and have attached the output.

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

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.

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

I opened an own bug for the upper comment (bug #634460)

[Corrado Mella (c-mella)]

Happening to me too, running Lucid with KDE 4.5 from the backports PPA.
I can see the
[..]
mount: / is busy
[..]
on shutdown.

It causes a recovery on boot
[..]
Sep 15 08:51:25 Satellite kernel: [ 2.944822] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
Sep 15 08:51:25 Satellite kernel: [ 2.944825] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
Sep 15 08:51:25 Satellite kernel: [ 7.186038] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 15 08:51:25 Satellite kernel: [ 7.186055] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Sep 15 08:51:25 Satellite kernel: [ 7.186835] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[..]

[Bert Voegele (bertvoegele-deactivatedaccount)]

I see the same here (upgraded to 10.10 from 10.04, Gnome) and the system is fscking on _every_ boot. I removed "squash" to see the output during startup/shutdown - unfortunately it's gone to fast to be read. I tried the "lsof" from comment #7, but no file is created. To track this down further, I tried adding a "sleep 120", a "read" or an "echo" there too - but again without any effect. It almost looks like these umount scripts never get called.

[Bert Voegele (bertvoegele-deactivatedaccount)]

It seems that either bum (boot-up-manager) or rcconf or jobs-admin fiddled with the file names in /etc/rc[0|6].d/ in a way that all links started with "S03". After restoring the appropriate order the umount scripts are called _before_ the halt|reboot script.

As a side note: backintime works as expected.

[Gard Spreemann (gspreemann)]

Although I have not checked this thoroughly, it seems that logging out of KDE, switching to a text terminal, logging in there and issuing sudo poweroff induces a clean shutdown. Shutting down from within KDE (often?) gives behaviour as described by this bug.

Also: I am affected by this problem even though I don't have the symlink messup Bert Voegele describes in comment #12.

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

A working automated solution I found is to add "restart kdm" (restart gdm for gnome users) to "/etc/rc.local". You may also want to see this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/618786

[Gard Spreemann (gspreemann)]

tekkenlord's workaround does not work for me.

[Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu)]

I can confirm it happens to me with my favorite xdm/fluxbox combination that I use since early this century. In most cases I could not cleanly shut down, seeing the message "file system busy" for "/" before power goes off on my laptop. Using 10.10 64-bit.

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

I often get the "unmounting weak filesystems" on shutdown or reboot, but only rarely will it check the disks for errors on startup. It isn't causing me any problems, as the system shuts down or reboots normally otherwise. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.

[Robert Marris (marris-rob)]

I have the same problem. Running 10.10 32 bit, every shutdown has the "mount: / is busy" and "unmounting weak filesystem" messages, and every boot it has to recover the filesystem.

Tried rebooting without GDM running and still get the problem.

My system is pretty much stock, the only thing that makes it out-of-the-norm is I'm running LVM ontop of mdraid.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

To those who have had this problem thus far.. do you have a separate partition for any parts of your filesystem, like /home, /var, etc.? Can you all post your /etc/fstab?

I am wondering if this is related to an earlier (fixed) bug in mountall that caused systems to not unmount all of the partitions before /

[Gard Spreemann (gspreemann)]

@Clint Byrum: I'm experiencing the problem both on machines with one big fat /-partition, and on machines that have at least /boot on a different partition.

[Robert Marris (marris-rob)]

Hi Clint
I've got a seperate /boot and mount an LVM LV at /local

fstab:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mapper/bobvg-rootlv1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# boot from either sda1 or sdb1 then pick them up together as a raid1
/dev/md1 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
mount lv running on md0
/dev/mapper/bobvg-biglv /local ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sdc1 during installation
UUID=5671ec36-0525-4980-aa6f-ad28d7e43649 none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sde1 during installation
UUID=a58ab41b-dfb4-4d97-af30-98eee7f893e2 none swap sw 0 0

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Given the high number of people who agree this affects them, and duplicate bug reports, I am marking this as Confirmed, and setting the Imporance to High.

I think this may actually be more related to mountall, as sysvinit does not mount things anymore, and so I'm reassigning the bug to mountall.

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

 I am running Kubuntu 64-bit with only 1 root EXT3 partition and 1 swap, and I am NOT affected by this problem. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I use EXT3?

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

By the way, I am running Maverick.

[Gard Spreemann (gspreemann)]

@tekkenlord: I've also experienced the problem on a computer with EXT3.

[Paul van Berlo (pvanberlo)]

I'm seeing the same on a CLI only install (Ubuntu 10.04 server cd / minimal install). This is actually delaying the installation of a new server for me, since I'm afraid of data corruption. It appears to be what Clint describes, I do not see any issues with a single root partition and swap, the issue started when I added a second EXT4 partition which is mounted somewhere under root.

[Hans Bull (bullinger)]

Affected on a new 10.10 installatation w/ complete HD encrypted (ext4) on a Samsung NC 10 netbook.

[Paul van Berlo (pvanberlo)]

It appears my umount issue is caused by two things:

1) sshd no longer stops on lucid, due to an error in the upstart ssh.conf file
2) I did an upgrade of libc6, which caused the issue aswell

Atleast it looks like this is it for me :-)

[Gard Spreemann (gspreemann)]

@Paul van Berlo. Regarding sshd, are you referring to bug #617515? I don't think they're related, because if I log out of my desktop environment (KDE), switch to a terminal and issue poweroff/reboot from there, I *don't* experience this problem (c.f. comment #13). Surely the SSH daemon should behave the same which ever way I shut down?

[Robert Marris (marris-rob)]

@Gard Spreemann - rebooting from the shell after stopping my desktop (gdm) doesn't prevent this happening for me. I also tried stopping ssh before a reboot but still hit the problem.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

It is, of course, possible that something is still leaving filesystems "in use" before reboot, but sshd not dying wouldn't be one of them.. at some point upstart will send SIGKILL if something does not die (the default is 5 seconds after sending SIGTERM). So I doubt that sshd causes this.

[Paul van Berlo (pvanberlo)]

@Clint Byrum - bug 603363 seems to talk about an issue where sshd is not properly being stopped, this was fixed for maverick, but apparently not for lucid. I ran lsof in the umountroot script, so right before the root fs should be remounted read only. I don't think anything gets killed in there between my lsof and the actual remount. The lsof consistenly shows 2 things running: init and sshd. Modifying the ssh.conf file to stop sshd on anything but runlevel 2345 solves that issue. However, I think we're also still running into bug 188925. It appears that right after a libc6 upgrade it fails to properly remount root because it's busy. This leaves orphaned inodes and possibly some other mess. This doesn't happen on a completely clean install without updates installed. All of this goes away after the initial reboot after updating - so this has to be something related to the updates.

As for if this is completely related to this bug, I'm not sure. I'm just seeing this behaviour and I'm still not 100% sure 'what to blame'. Nonetheless, having a dirty filesystem on a new install (a production server even!) right after doing some initial updates is kind of not making me feel very confident about this ;-)

[Kris Verbeeck (kris-verbeeck)]

I'm also having this problem. My /home partition (ReiserFS) doesn't cleanly unmount at shutdown, replaying journal at every boot for this partition. I also see the '/ busy' message at shutdown, but don't see any jounral replaying for / at boot up. Anyone any idea on how to capture the shutdown console output? It scrolls by too fast to be able to read everything.

Note that the problem started after an upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10, didn't notice any problems with 10.4.

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

The problem I reported should be fixed with the following sysvinit update (first bullet, killall5 problem). But it still seems to occur occasionally, I couldn't trace the cause. Any advice how to approach this is welcome.

sysvinit (2.87dsf-4ubuntu18) maverick; urgency=low

  * Allocate pidof/killall5 omitpid buffers dynamically. 16 is too small
    for killall5 now that all Upstart jobs are omitted.
  * Create /lib/init/rw as a symlink to /var/run on new installations, and
    fix it up in /etc/init.d/umountroot on upgrade, as it's difficult to do
    this at any other time; this saves us chasing around all the individual
    packages that use one or the other for sendsigs.omit.d (LP: #541512).
  * Handle /var/run/sendsigs.omit.d explicitly, just in case.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:48:28 +0100

[kif0rt (kif0rt)]

The same problem for me. Ubuntu 10.10

[Dr. Strangelove (richard-strangelove)]

This bug affects me, Lubuntu 10.04.

@ Clint Byrum: I am using a separate /home partition; so I have one partition with the system and one for home. Haven't had this issue in previous versions of Ubuntu.

[Alexey Molchanov (alexey-molchanov)]

I have two installations of 10.10 and this problem affects both of them.
First machine is a headless server with Ubuntu 10.10 Server installed and the second one is a netbook cleanly installed from 10.10 Alternate CD (it runs GDM and GNOME desktop). Both machines are i386 and use similar disk partitioning scheme: they has separate /boot partition, swap partition and a single LVM physical volume. On LVM I created three logical volumes for /, /home and /var; all of them use ext4 filesystem.
Very often after reboot they start fsck to check the root filesystem, I see the same messages as the original bug reporter during the boot process ("orphan cleanup...", "ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode").

[kif0rt (kif0rt)]

I had noticed if do manually disconnection through network-manager then problem disappears. Maybe I'm just lucky. But it's working for me. Nevertheless, it can not be considered as a solution of the problem because of disadvantages are obvious

[jon davies (daviesjpuk)]

Same problem here with an install built with debootstrap.

It is the same whether I access root via /dev/sdb1 or via UUID

[keith gilbert (k-gilbert)]

Same issue here, Ubuntu 10.10 64bit, I have separate /var /home partitions. Happens 95% of the time... hard to not shutdown a laptop, leaving Ubuntu (after 4 years) and installing Arch as 4 months with no fix is rubbish.

[Peter Júnoš (petoju)]

Problem still appears. This should be Critical bug as Ubuntu does not repair itself (for me) and needs a LiveCD.

[Stefan Glasenhardt (glasen)]

Any news on this bug? Milestone "oneiric-alpha-1" was reached last week.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

If one creates a python script like this:

#!/usr/bin/python

import signal
import time
import sys
import tempfile

def term_handler(signum, frame):
        time.sleep(15)
        sys.exit(0)

signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, term_handler)

t=tempfile.TemporaryFile(mode='w')

while time.sleep(3600):
        pass

And runs it with a job file like this (sudo start test after creating the file below)

# /etc/init/test.conf
stop on runlevel [016]

kill timeout 30

exec /path/to/test.py

With the current initscripts version, one will get orphaned inodes because the deleted tempfile was left open on reboot.

With the new version just uploaded (2.87dsf-4ubuntu25) the system should boot cleanly as the partially stopped process will have been killed off.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sysvinit - 2.87dsf-4ubuntu25

---------------
sysvinit (2.87dsf-4ubuntu25) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/sendsigs: Only omit jobs that
    are in the 'start' goal. Those that are destined for 'stop' are
    waited on and killed like all other processes. (LP: #616287) Thanks
    to Launchpad user "codewarrior".
 -- Clint Byrum <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:06:07 -0700

[mevdschee (mevdschee)]

patch works for me (natty) with ext2 on one big root partition, thanks!

[blitzter47 (blitzter47)]

I'm new in Ubuntu (10.10) and I have this bug. I don't understand how you fix it, as there is fix released. Can someone explain me, please?

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

Curious - is fixing this bug still on the radar for natty? Thanks!

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

piwacet, I think we need to fix it in Natty and all other supported release, yes. However, other things have taken priority over this particular fix. If somebody wants to backport the change from oneiric to 11.04 I'd be quite happy to sponsor that upload. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for help on how to get it ready for upload.

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

I had a go at this.

I'm not a technical person, and can not vouch for the technical accuracy of this. Thanks for looking at this, and if I've done this incorrectly, I apologize for wasting people's time.

In a freshly installed virtualbox ubuntu natty, I verified that the procedure in comment #71 does in fact cause this problem, and that making changes to /etc/init.d/sendsigs from this patch:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/73183009/sysvinit_2.87dsf-4ubuntu24_2.87dsf-4ubuntu25.diff.gz

does fix the problem. (This patch is based on codewarrior's patch from comment #65.)

I made a debdiff based on the natty package "sysvinit - 2.87dsf-4ubuntu23" with the change to /etc/init.d/sendsigs incorporated, following this procedure ("Tutorial 1: Providing a Debdiff"):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn

I'll attach the debdiff.

Again, if I've done this incorrectly, sorry for wasting people's time. I could likely make another attempt at this if there is a better way. Thanks!

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

Would it have made more sense to make this change in the package 'sysvinit-utils?'

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Not at all piwacet, this looks great!

I'm going to test it in a natty VM tomorrow, and if it looks good, I'll upload to natty-proposed.

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

I was wondering what the status of this is. I'm happy to test the natty-proposed package. I can test it in both a virtualbox VM and on my laptop on bare metal.

Thanks!

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

piwacet, I'm sorry, with the release of 11.10 coming soon, my time has been limited on SRU's.. I'll try to test this out. In the mean time, I've subscribed ubuntu-sponsors to it, so somebody else may take a crack at it before I can.

[šumski (schumski-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This still happens for me on Oneiric. Is there a workaround?

[šumski (schumski-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry for the noise, the problem was that as described in comment # 12

[David Clayton (dcstar)]

I have just manually downloaded and installed the 11.10 package (2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu4) on my 10.04 system and it installed without any dependency issues:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/sysvinit-utils

[David Clayton (dcstar)]

I have just solved my unclean unmounting issue, the solution was incredibly simple:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11253379&postcount=4

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

David, I'm not sure what broke your /etc/rc0.d, but S03 is definitely *not* where it should normally be:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2011-03-29 21:23 K09apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2011-03-17 15:25 K20denyhosts -> ../init.d/denyhosts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2011-05-02 04:39 K20gearman-job-server -> ../init.d/gearman-job-server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2011-05-02 04:33 K20memcached -> ../init.d/memcached
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-05-09 22:56 K20mk-slave-delay -> ../init.d/mk-slave-delay
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2011-04-08 19:05 K20postfix -> ../init.d/postfix
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 353 2011-06-08 18:32 README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2011-03-15 06:55 S10unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-03-15 06:59 S15wpa-ifupdown -> ../init.d/wpa-ifupdown
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2011-03-15 06:48 S20sendsigs -> ../init.d/sendsigs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2011-03-15 06:48 S30urandom -> ../init.d/urandom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-03-15 06:48 S31umountnfs.sh -> ../init.d/umountnfs.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2011-03-15 06:48 S35networking -> ../init.d/networking
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2011-03-15 06:48 S40umountfs -> ../init.d/umountfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2011-03-15 06:48 S60umountroot -> ../init.d/umountroot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2011-03-15 06:48 S90halt -> ../init.d/halt

[David Clayton (dcstar)]

It seems to be an issue with 10.04 systems, even a brand new 10.04.3 desktop install I made last week had it. I have subsequently found that others have reported it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/739007

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 07:47:11AM -0000, David Clayton wrote:
> It seems to be an issue with 10.04 systems, even a brand new 10.04.3
> desktop install I made last week had it. I have subsequently found that
> others have reported it:

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/739007

That bug is about using insserv. Did you reconfigure your system to use
insserv?

insserv is not supported on Ubuntu.

--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
<email address hidden> <email address hidden>

[David Clayton (dcstar)]

I had believed that particular bug refers to the sysvinit package, in any case it was still there in a BRAND NEW 10.04.3 install I did last week, and I don't recall installing anything out of the ordinary. I have seen many posts in the Ubuntu forums about people with "dirty" filesystems after a shutdown/reboot and this sort of problem will explain it.

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[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Nobody is saying that this bug does not exist. Its well known to exist and has a known fix. The time to backport, test, and upload said fixes will be more abundant after the 11.10 release which is just 2 weeks away now.

[David Clayton (dcstar)]

Ok, I have now found what was breaking my scripts - VMware Workstation 8/Player - I verified that the install process of this program changed them on my fresh 10.04 test system. I have reported it to the VMware forums.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

piwacet, finally got around to testing out your debdiff. Looks good, uploaded to natty-proposed

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Björn, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sysvinit into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

I'll try to give this a test in the next week if that time frame works.

Thanks.

[K1773R (k1773r)]

any plans on fixing this for 10.10 maverick?

greetings

[Fernando Carlos de Sousa (fernandoanatomia)]

I'm seeing this bug in Kubuntu 11.10 64 bit.

Fresh install and after regular updates and installing basic programs from the official repository and medibuntu.

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

I think I'm confused about something. Neither Natty nor Natty-proposed seem to have a package "sysvinit," but they do have "sysvinit-utils."

So from natty-proposed I installed the package sysvinit-utils_2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1_amd64.deb.

This did not make the change from the diff to /etc/init.d/sendsigs, and it did not fix the original problem of orphaned inodes.

I do see the packages "sysv-rc" and "initscripts" in natty-proposed that have suspiciously similar version numbers to "sysvinit-utils."

I'll install both of these packages from natty-proposed and report back.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:46:56PM -0000, piwacet wrote:
> I think I'm confused about something. Neither Natty nor Natty-proposed
> seem to have a package "sysvinit," but they do have "sysvinit-utils."

sysvinit is the source package name.

> So from natty-proposed I installed the package sysvinit-utils_2.87dsf-
> 4ubuntu23.1_amd64.deb.

> This did not make the change from the diff to /etc/init.d/sendsigs, and
> it did not fix the original problem of orphaned inodes.

> I do see the packages "sysv-rc" and "initscripts" in natty-proposed that
> have suspiciously similar version numbers to "sysvinit-utils."

> I'll install both of these packages from natty-proposed and report back.

Yep, that's the right thing to do here.

--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
<email address hidden> <email address hidden>

[piwacet (davrosmeglos)]

OK. It's working.

I installed a fully up-to-date natty 64 bit desktop in both a virtualbox and on bare metal on my old macbook 2,1.

Again I verified that the procedure in comment #71 does in fact produce the problem with orphaned inodes.

From natty-proposed I installed these packages:

sysvinit-utils_2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1_amd64.deb
sysv-rc_2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1_all.deb
initscripts_2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1_amd64.deb

This does make the changes to /etc/init.d/sendsigs from the patch, and it does fix the problem with orphaned inodes (tested on both the macbook and virtualbox)

I don't use these installations much, so I can not tell if these updates cause other unexpected problems.

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sysvinit - 2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1

---------------
sysvinit (2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/sendsigs: Only omit jobs that
    are in the 'start' goal. Those that are destined for 'stop' are
    waited on and killed like all other processes. (LP: #616287) Thanks
    to Launchpad user "codewarrior".
 -- Bill Cahill <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:41:05 -0700

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Since this was already fixed in natty, and there are no other patches attached, unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

This bug affects Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat. Maverick has reached end-of-life and is no longer supported, so I am closing the bugtask for Maverick. Please upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu.
More information here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2012-April/000158.html

[Alexander (lxandr)]

Also affects quantal 12.10.
Please, see my comments here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1073433

[sghpunk (sgh-mail)]

Affects quantal 12.04.
Seems like it is similar to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1073433

[sghpunk (sgh-mail)]

Affects precise 12.04.
Seems like it is similar to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1073433

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".