Bug#324900: nscd: umount /var fails (unclean shutdowns)

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:04:25PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:

> > - bash unconditionally does some NSS calls during startup (getpwuid
> >   etc.); this in turn
> > - loads all NSS modules that serve passwd maps -> if a module uses
> >   libraries from /usr, now you have a live memory mapping under /usr so
> >   you cannot unmount it during shutdown
> 
> Why is this "unconditionally" happenned?  What setting does this cause
> this problem?

Because bash calls getpwuid() to initialize the value of $SHELL before
executing the script.

Gabor

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