Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the "Give root password for >> maintenance ..." prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? >> > That's "sulogin". Did you mess up your /etc/inittab (like uncommenting > that line referring to sulogin)? > Nope, I don't recall ever changing that file on this system, and checking I find that this line is still commented. Though that would probably have been a problem. :) > But I rather guess its an unclean umount and sulogin is spawned > from /etc/init.d/halt.sh (l.189). > Possibly. Looking at that file it seems as if there's a 10 second(?) timeout on sulogin spawned from halt.sh. This one doesn't go away in any reasonable period of time. Also it looks as if there should be some messages about remounting and such before that sulogin would spawn, and I don't see such messages (presuming they should show up on this console).
If it is starting from halt.sh, is there any chance this could be a race condition thing, in which some processes aren't fully shut down yet when halt tries to umount? > Maybe you can cat your /proc/mounts > next time you're in that single-user mode? It might make things more > clear... I'll try this. Thanks for the suggestions, glen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
