Cannot unmount namecache|process references

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Nov 9 09:47:59 PST 2009


:Hi:
:
:After completing a installation using the 2.4.1 LiveCD, the
:system was rebooted.
:
:The screen fills up with
:'cannot umount: X namecache|process references
:...
:thanks
:Saifi.

    You can ignore them.  It's a long-standing bug.  Basically the
    kernel is having a hard time unmounting the MFS filesystems due to
    their dual user/kernel nature.   Basically the kernel tries to kill
    all user processes before unmounting but that also winds up messing
    up the MFS mounts since each one uses a user process as a placeholder.

    The system should still halt ok.  It just spews a lot of warnings.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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