[Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

[Scott James Remnant]

ingo: that's the way the Ubuntu release process works, I'm sorry that
this is a surprise to you

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, ingo <672177 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> @Zippo,
>
> it is really a sad story with LTS-Lucid. I really don't understand how
> such a buggy release could pass QC (if there is any?). I.e. today there
> came in an update of openSSH in Lucid, and still the old bug in the
> upstart-script '/etc/init/ssh.conf' (stop on runlevel S) is not fixed.
> Set it to (stop on runlevel [!2345]) - a hint from Clint.
>
> In fact Scott has left behind a half done upstart - not only in Lucid.
> And Clint has taken the ungreatful challenge to clean up the biggest
> issues. Shutdown process had been neglected to a great part.
> Unfortunately Canonical is mainly focussing on Natty while Lucid just
> gets the fixes for the worst.
>
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> Title:
>  libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be
>  restarted
>
> Status in Upstart:
>  Invalid
> Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
> Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
>  In Progress
> Status in “eglibc” source package in Lucid:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in “sysvinit” source package in Lucid:
>  New
> Status in “upstart” source package in Lucid:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in “eglibc” source package in Maverick:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in “sysvinit” source package in Maverick:
>  New
> Status in “upstart” source package in Maverick:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in “eglibc” source package in Natty:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “sysvinit” source package in Natty:
>  New
> Status in “upstart” source package in Natty:
>  In Progress
>
> Bug description:
>  On a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04.1, after upgrading the offer libc6
>  upgrade, on the next reboot the root fs can't be properly unmounted
>  (mount: / is busy). This causes fsck to run on boot and of course some
>  minor issues with the filesystem. This might not be a problem with
>  libc6 itself, but a side effect of upgrading in combination with some
>  other package (I suspect the init process, so I guess upstart).
>
>  The fsck run, and the orphaned inodes it finds are holding me back
>  from installing this on a new server - especially since this already
>  happens on a clean install of 10.04.1!
>
>  paul at ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
>  Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
>  Release:        10.04
>
>  ii  libc6                           2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
>  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>  Package: libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-server 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Sun Nov  7 16:17:07 2010
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   PATH=(custom, no user)
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: eglibc
>
>
>

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Title:
  libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be
  restarted