Re: bind mounts and shutdown sequence

[jmt <jmt@remotecomputingsystems.com>]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 15:33, Stephen Olander Waters wrote:
> I am running sid with amd64 architecture. I also have a chroot
> called /x86 to run openoffice, acroread, boinc, etc. In my /etc/fstab, I
> have several bind mounts into /x86.
>
> When I run "shutdown -h now" or "shutdown -r now", the shutdown sequence
> stops with an error after stopping all the processes. I have to use Alt
> +SysRq to reboot. However, the shutdown sequence works OK if I manually
> unmount the bind mounts before executing "shutdown".
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
>
> I can file a bug once I figure out what script is dying (it's hard for
> me to tell because the machine is unusable except Alt+SysRq!)
>
> Thanks so much,
> -s

Are you sure you don't run the shutdown in the chroot ?

I never tried that, because I think I could expect precisely this kind of 
troubles ...

jmt