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lester29

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Registered: 2022-10-31

Posts: 9

Failed unmounting /var/log and /var/log/journal at shutdown

Hi there, I have a problem with unmounting some systemd services at shutdown:

Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop systemd[1]: var-log-journal.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop systemd[1]: Failed unmounting /var/log/journal.
Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop systemd[1]: Stopped target Swaps.
Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop systemd[1]: Unmounting /var/log...
Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop umount[21663]: umount: /var/log: target is busy.
Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop systemd[1]: var-log.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a
Nov 19 12:31:55 laptop systemd[1]: Failed unmounting /var/log.

I have ZFS on root and /var, /var/log, /var/log/journal on the separate datasets. Let me know how can I solve this issue. Thanks

Last edited by lester29 (2022-11-19 12:05:05)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 50,924

Re: Failed unmounting /var/log and /var/log/journal at shutdown

You cannot umount /var as long as journald is trying to write there.
See whether you get away w/ https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy … itrd.mount for the relevant entries in fstab.

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