Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Tathagata Banerjee <tathagatab@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi.
i recently installed 9.3 pro (from the 5-cd set, not the dvd). all's
well except the root partition, which is probably not umounting at
shutdown time. the shutdown sequence says "umounting hdb6", but at the
next boot it still does an XFS recovery on that partition. this was not
the case in 9.2, where XFS recovery ran only when there was an unclean
shutdown.
just to check what was happening, i used the magic-sysrq combos to sync
the disks, remount the partitions r/o, kill all tasks, and
instant-reboot. upon the subsequent boot, there was no XFS recovery.

i don't thnk it's an XFS driver issue, because the other XFS partitions
don't have this problem. here's my partition structure:

hdb1		/boot	ext3	50 mb
hdb5		swap		500 mb
hdb6		/	xfs	10 gb
hdb7		/home	xfs	105 gb

only hdb6 has the problem, the others are fine.

i applied almost all relevant patches through YOU, but the problem
persists. ok - i didn't install the kernel patch because that
broke the system once on 9.2, and i'm slightly phobic about it. if the
kernel patch is a sure cure for this, i'll try it. but if it isn't,
i'd rather try other options first.

thanks in advance.


- t.
--
cogito, ergo es.