On Wednesday 11 May 2011 18:09:15 Richard Creighton wrote:
On 2011-05-11 benefici offered the following:
Hi, My desktop PC (with openSUSE 11.4) does not shutdown completely at times. This is very worrying as one of the steps missed is the unmounting of file systems. Then of course on the next boot-up the file systems are found unclean. Unfortunately I have also lost data because of this. I started collecting evidence about the problem by making video recordings of shutdown messages. I compared a complete shutdown with an incomplete one and found that the messages up to "Running /etc/init.d/halt.local" were present in both videos (in a different order). Then the following messages were missing from the incomplete shutdown:
Turning off swap files Set Hardware Clock to the current System Time Unmounting file systems none has been unmounted /dev/md6 has been unmounted /dev/md7 has been unmounted Shutting down MD Raid Stopping udevd:
After that both videos finished with the same messages:
Sending all processes the TERM signal... Sending all processes the KILL signal... The system will be halted immediately.
The above two videos were recorded about 2 hours apart, first the complete then the incomplete one. I did nothing special in between - used digiKam, checked my e-mail etc. I did not update my system or changed any system files. Any ideas how to track down / fix this problem? Tom
Tom,
Check out [Bug 590744] Unclean ext3 after online update . This and a related bug
[Bug 450196] PATA ext3 - recovering journal on / on first boot on new kernel/fresh system updates
I believe these two bugs are different from mine. In my case, unmounting manually works. The problem is that the shutdown process does not execute some of the steps (e.g. /etc/init.d/boot.localfs), which would among other things umount file systems. The problem also occurs whithout updating any software on my PC. Thanks anyway, Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org