Ubuntu does not shutdown properly due to wrong symlinks in runlevel 0 and 6

[Metabaronen]

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

initscripts: 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.5

I expect my system to kill all processes, umount all volumes gracefully or forcefully.

By default the symlinks for umountfs, umountroot, sendsigs, reboot and umountnfs.sh are created as S-links (start) but the scripts only handles the stop option. The scripts should be installed as K-scripts or disabled in case upstart should handle these.

Note: upstart doesn't handle stale processes before running it's umount -a in mountall-shell.conf so any left process will cause a blocked umount and an unclean file system and a fsck on boot.

A workaround is to manually change the boot order.

[Edit]
System specification:
64G memory
2 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 (24 cores)
x86_64

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Metabaronen (emil-assarsson)]

The bug report #858122 doesn't deal with the fact that scripts are linked as Start rather then Stop. I think that #858122 should deal with the problem but until then it should not be a duplicate. I've placed a comment about it but there is no related discussion.