[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#499796: initscripts: rootfs over nfs hangs at reboot

[Bastian Blywis]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.1
Severity: normal


The following problem happens reproducible in a network of 100 virtual
machines and a network of 120 "real" machines that mount their rootfs
over nfs.

When /etc/init.d/reboot is run and "reboot -d -f -i" called, in about
2-4% of the cases, the system will deadlock because the network
interfaces are shut down but the kernel still wants to read/write
something on the nfs export. The message "nfs server not responding" is
shown.

Solutions:
1) remove the "-i" from the init script
2) move the parameters to /etc/default/reboot

Please raise the severity to important, as the deadlock issue is serious
and custom modifications to the init script will be lost on package updates.


Bastian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils             3.4              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                   2.17.2-9         Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                 2.88dsf-13.1     System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils          2.88dsf-13.1     System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-2  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.11-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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