Seb, On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:00, Seb wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:43:54 -0500, > C M Reinehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
