Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

["Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org>]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:36:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> When you mount the filesystem, are all the standard options active or
> do you mount it noatime?  I don't know if it matters.

I'm mounting it with relatime. Mount says:

    /usr type xfs (rw,relatime,barrier,logbufs=8)

I'm not sure why that should matter, though.

> What happens if you do the remounting pre/post manually instead?

    $ sudo mount -o remount,ro /usr
    mount: /usr is busy

Since I can't do it manually, I'm not surprised it can't be done by apt,
but some of the questions people are asking make me wonder if it's an
interaction between XFS and apt, or if it's a problem with ext3 as well.
I have no way to test it; maybe someone else can chime in on that.

> I used to have /usr and /boot mounted ro routinely in Sarge with no
> problem.

Me, too, which is why this is annoying me tremendously.

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