[Bug 229798] Re: SDHC /home not properly umounted at shutdown on Eee PC

[Steve Langasek]

This will definitely not be fixed for 10.04, which is no longer a
supported desktop release.

Chances are the unclean shutdown is caused by some rogue process on your
system - perhaps one not belonging to the official Ubuntu OS - holding
files open on the /home partition at shutdown time.  In later releases,
we are working to improve the debuggability of such errors so that users
will be able to identify the programs responsible, but that won't be of
any use to you in 10.04.

If you are willing to test with a later release we can help investigate
if the problem is still present and what's causing it.  Otherwise, this
bug report should probably be closed as 'wontfix'.

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Title:
  SDHC /home not properly umounted at shutdown on Eee PC

Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: sysvinit

  Eee PC with hardy install does not properly umount all volumes at
  shutdown. On reboot /dev/sdb1 (/home - a SDHC card mounted by UUID at
  boot) nearly always (>90% of time) requires fsck, reporting "/dev/sdb1
  not cleanly unmounted..."

  This problem has been noted with Mandriva on the Eee as seen at
  <http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=251599>. The fix as
  described at that page is not applicable to the hardy initscripts, but
  placing the `sync; sync; sync; sleep 3' in rc.localstop does not fix
  problem.

  $ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 8.04
  Release:	8.04
  Codename:	hardy

  $ dpkg -l initscripts 
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name           Version        Description
  +++-==============-==============-============================================
  ii  initscripts    2.86.ds1-14.1u Scripts for initializing and shutting down t

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