Just a word in your ear-holes: Do you recall someone mentioning a while
ago that when he shutdown his Linux system, umount could not umount the
root file system properly (i.e VFS: Could not umount, filesystem busy or
something to that effect?) Well, I think I know why and have a solution.
Well, I just upgraded my SysVinit to 2.74 (from 2.62) and mount to 2.8b (I
have a patch for this for glibc-2.0.95 - see later in this e-mail).
Upon starting the shutdown -r now phase, I had a similar problem to the
above. On closer investigation discovered that SysVinit's init was not a
static binary, but was a dynamic binary. Recompiling this as a static (add
-static to the STATIC macro in the Makefile) fixed this problem, now get
perfect umounts every time I initiate the shutdown phase.
On a another subject, umount-2.8b-alpha's swapon will not compile on
glibc-2.0.95. I have therefore included a simple patch for this:
--- swapon.c.orig Wed Sep 16 07:02:20 1998
+++ swapon.c Wed Sep 16 07:00:06 1998
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <mntent.h>
#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/user.h>
#include "swap.h"
#include "swapargs.h"
And that should be it. There was a shitload of warnings for mount and
umount, but no real harm so ignored so someone better can fix it. They do
work anyway. 8)
I ermm.. accidentally deleted clock from /sbin. Can anyone point me to a
suitable .tar.gz to get the sources for this? I need it so my clock
doesn't do a timewarp 4 hours earlier and fscks up news :o)
Cheers,
Alex
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