Bug 98667 – halt.sh reports errors on "Remounting remaining filesystems readonly" and prompts for root password with readonly root

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Patrick McLean 2005-07-11 06:34:51 UTC]

halt.sh will report errors and prompt for the root password when the root
filesystem is mounted readonly, umount will try to update mtab, and fail so the
system will think there is an initscript error and prompt for the root password
for system maintenance.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Patrick McLean 2005-07-11 06:36:12 UTC]

Created attachment 63142 [details, diff]
patch to make umount use -n so it won't try to update mtab

Attaching a patch makes the script pass umount the -n flag so it won't try to
update mtab, there is no point in updating it at this point anyway, the system
is either about to reboot or shut off.

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-07-11 07:27:56 UTC]

Wonder if its not a typo, as it should not be -r -r ...

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-07-11 07:31:59 UTC]

Fixed in svn, thanks.