On 10/12/05, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
On 12-Oct-05 Dan Hatton wrote:
Lately (last week or so,) when I boot my machine (Debian Testing,) after either a poweroff (via shutdown -h) or reboot (via shutdown -r,) it consistently complains that the root filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, and insists on fscking that filesystem. After the reboot forced by fsck, the machine starts up just fine.
You could always try (with care!) planting a few "echo" debug-trace comments in the file, so that you can check its progress on screen. But in any case, when you reboot or shutdown you should always see the message "Unmounting file systems" just before the message "Halting system..." or "Please stand by while rebooting the system..."
Another strategy is to re-mount root as read-only before the end.
As you are running Debian Testing, there is a chance the shutdown scripts have been broken in a recent update.
Tim.