Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > > Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount
> > > script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount
> > > all the partitions).
> >
> > This should already be in place on a Debian system ;)
>
> You never know.
> When I upgraded to 2.2.10 from 2.0.36, system would not umount the
> partitions properly because of some problem with scripts in rc.d. That
> caused quite a lot of file corruptions (esp in dselect data files, where
> info about each package is kept. I could not install anything)
That's odd, since the umountfs script is in the (required base) package
sysvinit... Unless you got caught by one of the versions with that bug
(the changelog records fixes for umounting bugs near the beginning of
1998) or you did something odd when upgrading the kernel...
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