Root filesystem never unmounts cleanly on shutdown

dirtboy

Every time I shut down or reboot my laptop, the next time I go into Linux fsck runs. This is getting very annoying. What logs can I look at to determine what is causing this?

BradN · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject:

The only thing I can think of is that somehow the filesystem check isn't completing correctly. Try remounting the root filesystem read-only, unmounting any other filesystems, and running fsck manually, and see if it still wants to check it.

dirtboy · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject:

Well, the thing is that after the fsck finishes, I get the "Filesystem Repaired: Reboot Linux" message and the machine reboots itself, and it boots fine. If I then reboot again, the check happens again and the whole process starts over. So, in order to boot or reboot my machine, I have to boot once, let it fsck, then reboot every time.

Beekster · Apprentice Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 268 Location: Sydney

Check also this thread. It appears the current ~x86 has another problem (the other being net.eth0 for some people not finding carrier, and failing to bring up eth0). There is a linked to bug with a new /etc/init.d/halt.sh that fixed it for me.