From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@linsec.ca>
Subject: Re: runit upgrades and halt rather than reboot
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:04:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060203170403.GN17576@annvix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060203165552.17710.qmail@238ebfa254faf9.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
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* Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> [2006-02-03 16:55:52 +0000]:
> > > > I'm encountering a really odd problem. When I upgrade runit, when I do
> > > > a "reboot" or "init 6", runit goes into poweroff mode rather than
> > > > reboot. I'm gearing up to put out my next version of Annvix so am doing
> > > > some testing and we upgraded from runit 1.3.1 to 1.3.3 and on each test
> > > > instance (2 x86 and 1 x86_64), once all the packages were upgraded
> > > > (including runit), when I did reboot (the first two) and "init 6" (the
> > > > last one), they powered off.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure if this is because the /sbin/init binary changed or what,
> > > > but it's *really* annoying, particularly since I know some folks who use
> > > > Annvix at remote locations (myself as well) and a trip to the colo to
> > > > turn the machine on after the upgrade would, well, stink. =)
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas as to what might be the problem and how I can rectify it?
> > > > After that reboot, runit is fine... reboot works as advertised, as does
> > > > halt, etc. But it's just that one reboot after it's been upgraded that
> > > > is problematic.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure from your description. With a preliminary runit Debian
> > > package, on shutdown after package upgrade, the root filesystem wasn't
> > > unmounted cleanly, because /sbin/runit was replaced. The workaround is
> > > to first copy /sbin/runit to /sbin/runit.old, then replace /sbin/runit.
> > > After reboot, /sbin/runit.old can be removed again. Maybe it's worth a
> > > try.
> >
> > Hmmm... that might not be a bad idea to try. So instead of running
> > reboot/halt/shutdown, run "init.old 6" (I renamed runit to init).
>
> No, you can still use `init 6` with the new binary. It's just that the
> old, still running, /sbin/init still has an inode on the filesystem;
> that's what the copy is for. I'm not sure it solves your problem
> though.
Ahhh... ok, I see what you're saying. Well, I'll give it a go both ways
(that's what vmware states are for) and see what happens.
> > I'll give that a try, Gerrit. It makes things a bit messy, but nothing
> > a startup script can't check for and cleanup.
>
> I have this in /etc/runit/1
> rm -f /sbin/runit.old
That's what I was thinking of doing as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-03 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-02 4:20 Vincent Danen
2006-02-03 15:40 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-03 16:45 ` Vincent Danen
2006-02-03 16:55 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-03 17:04 ` Vincent Danen [this message]
2006-02-11 19:03 ` Vincent Danen
2006-02-11 19:11 ` Paul Jarc
2006-02-11 19:44 ` Vincent Danen
2006-02-13 14:44 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-02-14 4:08 ` Vincent Danen
2006-02-14 5:22 ` Joshua N Pritikin
2006-02-14 5:42 ` copy runit-init to /sbin/init or not Alex Efros
2006-02-14 6:04 ` Vincent Danen
2006-02-14 14:08 ` Alex Efros
2006-02-14 18:49 ` Vincent Danen
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