FS#2887 - System hangs on shutdown after using inotify

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alexander Hunziker (alexthelion) - Monday, 27 June 2005, 19:30 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 22:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I experience a problem with inotify. I had it with the kernel26mm 2.6.12.mm1-1 package and also with kernel26 2.6.12.1-1 from testing. If some program (in my case beagled, gamin, or both, all cases tested) used inotify, then the systems hangs upon shutdown when trying to unmount the partitions. It happens when trying to unmount my /home partition (I can tell from the messages during the next boot). If I shutdown my system directly w/o logging in first, it shuts down correctly.

Please also see Bug # 4796 in kernel.org's bugzilla.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Monday, 23 January 2006, 10:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi? id=4796

seems it was resolved in newer kernels
Comment by Alexander Hunziker (alexthelion) - Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 06:37 GMT
There's a new inotify patch available.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 06:52 GMT
please post the link to it, thanks
Comment by Alexander Hunziker (alexthelion) - Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 07:27 GMT
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/v2.6/0.23/inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-14.patch
Comment by Alexander Hunziker (alexthelion) - Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 13:51 GMT
Rebuilt 2.6.12.1 kernel from testing with the newest patch, problem persists.
Comment by Alexander Hunziker (alexthelion) - Tuesday, 05 July 2005, 09:55 GMT
Anton Altaparmakov made a patch to solve this problem. Have not tested it yet. See kernel.org bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4796

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