On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Mauro Santos registo.mailling@gmail.com wrote:

After the latest initscripts update I get a warning (?) from udevd (?) when shutting down, it goes like this:

... Deactivating Swap              [Done] Sending SIGTERM to processes   [Busy] udevd[pid]: 'udisks-part-id /dev/sda2' [pid] terminated by signal 15 (terminated)                               [Done] Saving random seed             [Done] ...

In my case sda2 is the swap partition, nothing seems to break as swap still gets enabled when the machine boots but I was wondering if this is expected and if this might cause trouble for some corner case.

This is an udev thing, rather than an initscripts thing as far as I can tell. However, we might want to add a fix to initscripts for this in the future (I'm still trying to figure out what is the "correct" behavior).

This is what happens:

When we run "swapoff --all" at shutdown the kernel sends out a CHANGE event on the swap device (you can see this by running "udevadm monitor" in one terminal and "swapoff /devsda2" in another). This then triggers several udev rules, which in turn run blkid, udisks-part-id, and probably others.

By the time blkid and friends have started we have reached the killall part of rc.shutdown, so they are sent a TERM signal (signal 15). They then terminate as they are requested to do, but whine a bit about it in the terminal (wouldn't you, if the guy who started you immediately tells you to shut down?).

The only reason these helpers are run, is so udev can assign the correct properties to the swap partitions in its database. However, we really don't care about that as udev is about to be shutdown (and its database destroyed) in a few milliseconds anyway.

In principle this might cause some more annoying problems where an event at the perfect time creates a process that escapes the killall logic and causes an unclean shutdown, so I should really look into shutting down udev properly (though probably, through pure luck, this can never happen).

-t

TL;DR: it doesn't matter, just ignore it.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Mauro Santos registo.mailling@gmail.com wrote:

Do you know if the shutdown messages are logged somewhere or if it's possible to log them somewhere (I've grepped through the logs but didn't find anything), as it might come in handy since shutdown happens really fast and there isn't much time to read any warnings or errors.

We don't log shutdown as the disks are being unmounted. What I usually do is to edit /etc/rc.conf and add "bash" on a line just before the final shutdown. That will give you a shell and you can view the previous messages, and when you are done you just "exit" to continue shutting down.

Cheers,

Tom

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Mauro Santos registo.mailling@gmail.com wrote:

( and I guess you meant /etc/rc.shutdown but I got the idea :) ).

Indeed :)

-t