Comment 6 for bug 125702

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Mike (mike0999) wrote : Re: [Bug 125702] Re: failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2

Although it says it is activating a swap file when I am booting up, it looks
like my system may not be using swap. If I type "free" in a terminal, I get
the following:

             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1026464 572388 454076 0 45980 198412
-/+ buffers/cache: 327996 698468
Swap: 0 0 0

On 7/20/07, Michael Panepucci <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> My fstab file contains the following when booted up:
>
> unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
>
> My mtab file contains the following:
>
> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /lib/modules/2.6.22-8-generic/volatile tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
> varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
> varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
> udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
> devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> tmpfs /lib/modules/2.6.22-8-generic/volatile tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
> fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
>
> I am not getting the error 110 error at the moment, so I am not sure if
> you can rely upon that feedback.
>
> When booting, it definitely is telling me that it is activating a swap
> file. On shutdown, I get "ok" when it is deactivating the swap file. I
> also get "ok" when it is unmounting temporary filesystems on shutdown.
>
> On 7/21/07, Michael Panepucci <<email address hidden> > wrote:
> >
> > I get the same error on Tribe3. I think I mentioned this, but just to
> > be sure, I am booting into persistent mode.
> >
> > I am using a "Live USB" that I create in accordance with the Ubuntu
> > Wiki. It is a 4GB Drive. My casper-rw partition is a little over 2GB. I
> > did also try a different USB drive and got the same error with another USB
> > drive.
> >
> > I do exactly the same thing with Edgy as I do with Gutsy and I don't get
> > the error with Edgy. Based upon some customized iso's I created to get
> > persistence to work on Feisty, it looks like the error also occurred with
> > the Feisty iso (unless I pin the Feisty upstart files at the Edgy versions).
> >
> >
> > I have the casper-rw partition formatted as ext2. I don't have a swap
> > partition, so the system may be using a swap file.
> >
> > The partition on which I am placing the "iso" files is formatted FAT32.
> >
> > I don't have any other disks mounted - just the Live USB. Presumably
> > the casper-rw partition is mounted using unionfs. I don't know if this
> > error may somehow be related to the persistence issues, but persistence does
> > seem like it is working at least to some extent ( e.g. I installed an
> > application and it was present when I rebooted; it didn't maintain my WPA
> > password, but it did maintain my keyring password).
> >
> > If I execute the "sync" command before shutting down, I still get the
> > same error. After booting up again after I get the umount failure, I
> > believe I may have seen some errors (I am booting in debug mode). I don't
> > remember the error message exactly, but will try to note the details if I
> > see it again. I think it may have been error 110 or something like that,
> > with maybe some sort of message about inodes. My recollection is that the
> > error was associated with the casper-rw partition (I am pretty sure that
> > that was the case, but can double check that if I get the error again).
> >
> > If it would be useful to you to have me burn an actual CD and try
> > persistence using the CD, I can try to do that as well if you think it will
> > provide useful information.
> >
> > I am using an IBM X41 tablet with a mobile pentium. Obviously it has an
> > internal drive, but again it is not mounted.
> >
> > I can't think of other information at the moment that might be useful,
> > but if there is any additional info I can provide, feel free to let me know.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 7/20/07, Michael Panepucci <email address hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'll try the new version.
> > >
> > > It looks like your email got cut off. It looks like you were saying
> > > it would be helpful to know something?
> > >
> > > On 7/19/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> > > > Ubuntu
> > > > better. There is now a newer Tribe CD available and we were
> > > > wondering
> > > > if the problem exists with it. Additionally, it would be quite
> > > > helpful
> > > > to know Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> > > > Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> > > > Status: New => Incomplete
> > > >
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> > > > failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2
> > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
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