[expert] 9.1: partition device busy on shutdown

2003-10-04 Thread Norman Carver
Have had 9.1 installed on several machines for months working fine.
One had a harddrive problem this last week, so just got a new drive
and reinstalled 9.1 then did most updates.  When I tried to shutdown
the machine, however, umount failed for the partition I have /home on.
Get a device busy message.  Went into console as root right after boot and
could umount and remount for a couple of minutes, but then suddenly
got device busy message (without ever having done anything that
should have involved /home).  Root partition and other (/backup) partitions
umount fine at shutdown.  But /home partition will not--ever.  lsof from
console lists nothing.  Any ideas?  Never encountered this problem before
with any 9.1 installation.  Happens with both original 9.1 kernel (enterprise)
and the latest updates one (enterprise version).

Thanks,
Norm


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Re: [expert] 9.1: partition device busy on shutdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kwan Lowe

 Have had 9.1 installed on several machines for months working fine.
 One had a harddrive problem this last week, so just got a new drive
 and reinstalled 9.1 then did most updates.  When I tried to shutdown
 the machine, however, umount failed for the partition I have /home on.
 Get a device busy message.  Went into console as root right after boot
 and
 could umount and remount for a couple of minutes, but then suddenly
 got device busy message (without ever having done anything that
 should have involved /home).  Root partition and other (/backup)
 partitions
 umount fine at shutdown.  But /home partition will not--ever.  lsof from
 console lists nothing.  Any ideas?  Never encountered this problem before
 with any 9.1 installation.  Happens with both original 9.1 kernel
 (enterprise)
 and the latest updates one (enterprise version).

Check that you don't have any automount processes running, NFS server is
down, and no other open files.

You can also try remounting /home as ro then fsck'ing the device. E.g.:
  mount -o remount,ro /mnt/home




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