You have been subscribed to a public bug: The 'Unmounting local filesystems...' stage of shutdown fails, and reports that the /var partition is busy. This occurs where /var is on its own separate partition.
I am using 64 bit Kubuntu 12.10 (quantal) but I was also able to reproduce this problem on a clean install of xubuntu 12.10 i386 in virtualbox. I added debugging messages to the script: /etc/init.d/umountfs 'fuser -m /var' shows that the only process with a file open on /var is dhclient, which has a dhcp lease file in /var/lib/dhcp/ Using 'fuser -k -m /var' in the umountfs script kills the offending process, allowing for a clean shutdown, but that's not the right fix. I'm not sure how to proceed from here. dhclient is a child process of NetworkManager - should NetworkManager clean it up? the /etc/init.d/sendsigs script, which kills other processes during shutdown, is specifically blocked from killing dhclient by an entry in /run/sendsigs.omit.d/ so it is not clear to me what should be happening. Apologies if I filed this in the wrong place. Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 upstart: Installed: 1.5-0ubuntu9 Candidate: 1.5-0ubuntu9 Version table: *** 1.5-0ubuntu9 0 500 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- umount of /var partition fails during shutdown, due to lingering dhclient https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1089771 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp