On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> and what's with this time stamp value? >> >> When I boot this machine it gets to a point where it says something >> like 'Wiping /tmp...' and then I see a message 'Unable to remove >> ./jack' and then something about the device or directory being busy. >> When I log in as root and try to remove it by hand this is the >> results: >> >> lightning tmp # ls -la >> total 24 >> drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 8192 2008-06-28 07:12 . >> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2008-05-04 18:23 .. >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2008-06-28 07:10 .ICE-unix >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 2008-06-28 00:10 jack >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 2008-06-28 07:10 .X0-lock >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2008-06-28 07:10 .X11-unix >> lightning tmp # rm -rf jack/ >> rm: cannot remove directory `jack': Device or resource busy >> lightning tmp # >> >> Two questions to start: >> >> 1) If /tmp/jack is really busy then who is using it? This machine was >> cold booted 9 minutes ago and Jack (the sound connection machine) >> isn't running: >> >> lightning tmp # ps aux | grep jack >> root 5635 0.0 0.0 4096 696 pts/0 R+ 07:20 0:00 grep >> --colour=auto jack >> lightning tmp # >> > > Try lsof: "lsof /tmp/jack" or "lsof | grep jack" since I'm not sure if lsof > works on directories alone. > > Also, are you sure /tmp/jack is empty? Did you "ls -a" ? > >> Thanks in advance, >> Mark > > > HTH, > PaulNM
Hi Paul, Yes, ls -al shown nothing is there. Actually, I think the root cause of this is a little different than I expected. /tmp/jack is actually something that's mounted: lightning ~ # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on <SNIP> none 508016 0 508016 0% /tmp/jack and the root cause of that is that it's in my fstab file: lightning ~ # cat /etc/fstab | grep jack none /tmp/jack tmpfs defaults 0 0 lightning ~ # So, there are three directions to go: 1) Remove it from fstab and figure out what the repercussions of that action might be. 2) Understand why the Gentoo boot process want to wipe mounted directories in /tmp since it won't work. 3) Go back to ignoring it. I'm going to investigate #1 first as this is something that I think is left over from years ago, but maybe you or someone else has another idea. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
