FSCK on sda2 "couldn't unmount"

[Daniel]

Hi there,

I have a problem with fsck on my sda2 drive. I keep getting the error message "Couldn't unmount /mnt/sda2 for checking it. Please stop services first."

I did the stopp all services command in sytem -> utilities and the rcall status gives the following info:

rcall status

root: user stopped.

root: ffp stopped

root: minidlna stopped

root: vsftpd stopped

root: dropbear running

root: smbd stopped

root: rpc.statd stopped

root: nfsd stopped

root: lighttpd stopped

root: inadyn-mt stopped

root: ntpd stopped

root: dnsmasq stopped

root: stunnel stopped

root: inetd running

root: portmap stopped

root: news stopped

root: cleanup stopped

root: backup stopped

root: mdadm stopped

root: smartd stopped

root: atd stopped

root: crond stopped

root: sysctrl stopped

root: No modules loaded

root: urandom stopped

root: sslcert stopped.

root: syslogd stopped

Still no luck, is there a way to force fsck on reboot?

Thanks

Daniel

[João Cardoso]

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 8:15:32 AM UTC, Daniel wrote:

Hi there,

I have a problem with fsck on my sda2 drive. I keep getting the error message "Couldn't unmount /mnt/sda2 for checking it. Please stop services first."

That's 'aufs' that is using sda2. You have Alt-F packages installed there, right? Unfortunately it is not always possible to unmount aufs.

From the command line (using telnet or dropbear, *not* openssh), after stopping all services , try 'aufs.sh -u'. If it succeeds, you can now fsck. If it doesn't work, try doing the above right after a reboot.

I did the stopp all services command in sytem -> utilities and the rcall status gives the following info:

rcall status

root: user stopped.

... 

root: syslogd stopped

Still no luck, is there a way to force fsck on reboot?

Unfortunately no. I've been thinking on that during lunch and...

-Add a 'fsck on reboot' button at System->Utilities, which saves fsckonreboot=yes on /etc/misc.conf

-At boot, after reading settings, if fsckonreboot exists create /tmp/fschonreboot and remove it from misc.conf

-hot_aux sees if /tmp/fsckonrebbot exists and proceeds accordingly

Can you please add this to the Features Requests Ticket?

rcS loads settings

Thanks

Daniel

[Daniel]

Hi,

...

From the command line (using telnet or dropbear, *not* openssh), after stopping all services , try 'aufs.sh -u'. If it succeeds, you can now fsck. If it doesn't work, try doing the above right after a reboot.

...

Worked like a charm :-)

I also created that featurerequest you mentioned.

Thanks for the help

Daniel