tags 439355 + pending thanks On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 23:00 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The biggest problem of NSS stuff depending on files in /usr/, is that > it is _impossible_ to umount /usr/ during shutdown when bash is used. > The reason is that bash look up a users username, and this loads the > NSS stuff, and the libraries loaded will lock /usr/. When /bin/sh > point to bash, this mean that the umountfs script during shutdown will > block /usr/ from being umounted, and /usr/ will need to be checked at > boot (and might be corrupt in an unlucky case.
Thanks for the explanation. Seems like a good enough reason. I've committed the needed change and it will be in the next release. Note however that nslcd is in /usr/sbin and links to numerous libraries in /usr/lib so you can't expect working NSS lookups when /usr isn't mounted. -- -- arthur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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