Bug 251863

Summary:	system doesnt reboot. NFS errors
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robert Macaulay <robert.macaulay>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	6	CC:	rvokal
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Description Robert Macaulay 2007-08-12 21:31:18 UTC

Description of problem:
the halt script calls out to kexec prior to calling. This seemingly causes
access to the root NFS to timeout. When the script runs in debug mode, I get the
timeout when this command is run. Line 220 in /etc/init.d/halt
[ -f /poweroff -o ! -f /halt ] 
followed eventually by NFS timeouts.

The remote client is still pingable. The network isn't gone. If I comment out
the  line right above,
[ -n "$kexec_command" ] && $kexec_command -e >& /dev/null
the reboot works perfectly.




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-netboot-0.1.41-1.FC6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Robert Macaulay 2007-08-14 04:16:16 UTC

Tracked this down to the specifics on the kexec call. 
Initscripts version  initscripts-8.45.7-1

The call to the kexec command at the end of the halt /etc/init.d/halt script
should be changed from

[ -n "$kexec_command" ] && $kexec_command -e >& /dev/null

to 

[ -n "$kexec_command" ] && $kexec_command -e -x >& /dev/null

This leaves up the network interfaces which is important on a NFS mounted root.

Comment 2 Robert Macaulay 2007-08-15 01:35:54 UTC

This seems to be a dupe of #223932 on Enterprise Linux. Any chance at a backport
of it to FC6 as errata? It's for a netboot FC6 system which is ill behaved on F7
still.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2007-08-29 17:20:53 UTC

Maybe, will have to see what else is pending.