Re: schroot boot up messages
Seb,
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:00, Seb wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:43:54 -0500,
> C M Reinehr <cmr@amsent.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Glad I could help! It probably was just my carelessness as I was
> > cleaning up the mount directory, but afterwards I couldn't start my
> > chroot. After fooling with it for a couple of _days_ I finally looked in
> > my chroot directory and 90% of it was _gone_! At some point I think I
> > started cleaning up the mount directory while parts of the chroot
> > directory still were mounted.
>
> Yes, that's probably what happened and you butchered the chroot, because I
> noticed that all the directories below /var/lib/schroot/mount are hard
> linked to wherever the chroot is mounted. I remember reading somewhere
> about someone wiping his/her entire /home (non-chroot!), forgetting it was
> still mounted. Since then, whenever I do *anything* with any of the
> chroot directories, all my senses concentrate on everything I do then!
>
> :-)
> :
> > Anyway, using type=directory seems to work well and I haven't had
> > any more problems. And, /proc, /home, /etc are bind mounted and
> > unmounted automatically as needed, rather than staying mounted all the
> > time, as with chroot.
>
> Did you change anything in your /etc/fstab after you began using
> type=directory?
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Seb
On a final note, while working this afternoon, I ran the mount command (no
options) and discovered that I still had a live session that, somehow, was
left over from a week or so ago. So, using type=directory is not a cure for
what ails us. FWIW, the program holding files open and preventing umount'ing
is avahi-daemon.
This time, I was smarter and read the manual, and was able to clean things up
using the following command:
schroot -e -c etch-i386-456cea9b-d8ca-4b50-ae35-28d23e546bcc
where etch-i386-456cea9b-d8ca-4b50-ae35-28d23e546bcc was the name of the
session (ls /var/lib/schroot/sessions). It shutdown the session and umount'ed
everything cleaning.
Cheers!
cmr
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