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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: user-mode-linux@mukesh.agrawals.org
Cc: Daniel Burton <dan@spaz.org>,
	220679@bugs.debian.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: Bug#220679: user-mode-linux: Fails to Mount Root Filesystem on Reboot
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:59:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117185942.GZ9377@dijkstra.csh.rit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311171352460.26239-100000@slash.mukesh.agrawals.org>

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:55:35PM -0500, user-mode-linux@mukesh.agrawals.org wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:43:49AM -0800, Daniel Burton wrote:
> > > F_SETLK failed, file already locked by pid 26263
> > > Failed to lock 'root_fs', err = 11
> > > unable to open root_fs for validation
> >
> > And this is the problem.  Presumably pid 26263 is the UML itself, and for
> > some reason the file isn't getting unlocked.
> 
> You may have another UML using that file. Perhaps you killed some of the
> UML processes, but not all of them?
> 
> "ps aux | grep linux" will probably show a UML still running.
> 
> (This has always been the case for me, when I get the "F_SETLK failed"
> message.)

This was after a reboot, not killing UML, so this same UML was able to lock
the file earlier, and no other UML could have locked it during that time.

-- 
 - mdz


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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1ALez7-0007q5-Of@frankenstein>
2003-11-17 16:14 ` [uml-devel] Re: Bug#220679: user-mode-linux: Fails to Mount Root Filesystem on Reboot Matt Zimmerman
2003-11-17 18:55   ` user-mode-linux
2003-11-17 18:59     ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]
2003-11-18  1:30   ` Daniel Burton
2003-11-18  4:06     ` Matt Zimmerman
2003-11-18  8:19       ` Daniel Burton

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