[linux-dvb] OT: dvb drivers cause umount hang

[Christian Tramnitz <maillist@tramnitz.com>]

I would rather ask this on the Mythtv or Gentoo mailinglist, can't 
imagine this is a driver issue...

I had Gentoo on a kernel 2.4.2x box without such problems.

But maybe this is also Gentoo related, the current support in Gentoo's 
startup and stop scripts for initial ramdisks is very poor:
On one machine this resulted in fsck's on an already mounted fs (bad 
idea) during bootup and a hang during poweroff (at the point unmounting 
filesystems). This happened on a non-dvb box, only solutions was to 
delete the /initrd directoy so that it is not mounted at boot time.
(You can still loopback mount it anywhere else using fstab).
I think the problem is, that the current Gentoo scripts only unmount 
filesystems that are mounted according to mtab and not such automounted 
filesystems such as initrd.


Best regards,
   Christian

Jon Dye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the DVB drivers 1.0.1 with kernel 2.4.22 on gentoo.  I find 
> that when I compile a new kernel and create an initrd I get to the point 
> of unmounting the initrd loop file and the umount process hangs.  I 
> discovered that if I stop mythtv which is using the DVB drivers the 
> umount command becomes "unstuck" and the initrd loop file is unmounted.
>
> has anyone else seen anything like this?  Has this been fixed?
>
> JD

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