[SM-Discuss] mount.sh

nealbirch nealbirch at attbi.com
Sat Nov 23 11:16:04 EST 2002


Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> last night when I closed down my system, after trying to rebuild kde and 
> xfree86, mount.sh started looping on 
> 
> out of memory; kill process xxx
> 
> I suspect it was because there was still a mount point /usr/src/xc, with a lot 
> of data.
> 
> In the past, my mount script unmounted all the tmpfs entries before doing 
> anything else.  I'm not sure what it does now.
> 
> Eventually I pressed the restart button. Ext3 journalling saved me.

it's still supposed to unmount the tmpfs that it knows about. Sorcery is 
supposed to umount the things it's mounting too, but I have noticed in 
the last couple of days when it fails to build, it leaves the 
directories mounted. Thought that had been addressed, actually.


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