[arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bannister<c.bannister at gmail.com> wrote:
> If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with
> MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this
> causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var
> partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way?

Well, yes. Shutting down the processes is not very clean. SIGTERM and
later SIGKILL are sent to all processes to tell them to die. The
/etc/rc.d/ daemons have a clean way of shutting down, so those are
done first. There's no way to say "send a SIGTERM to all processes
except those started by rc.d scripts so I can shut those down cleanly"

If this is truely caused by mpd, I believe our mpd DOES ship with a
rc.d script, and you can configure your user in the /etc/conf.d/ file.
This way mpd will be stopped cleanly on shutdown