On 07/04/2008, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> I am seeing these randomly after what appears to be a clean shutdown,
i.e., menu shutdown or restart. Not seeing them at all on test sequences
where restart comes very soon after startup. They seem to appear only after
a session where I use a lot of different programs for couple of hours. I
frequently use thunderbird, firefox and some kde programs like konqueror,
kwrite and k3b. I also use the cli to use system utilities from a gnome
terminal like the various system-config- programs and basic system status
checks. I have looked in the messages log but don't see anything that
points to a bad shutdown.
>
I see them also, usually after I notice a service failed to shutdown
though... to be honest I haven't paid the orphan inodes much attention yet.
I'll try to watch what is happening on those more closely. They definitely
do show up (en masse) when my virtual machine hangs and I hard reset it.
It's possible for a number of reasons, and I've seen it after quite a
few updates. In particular anything that affects libraries used by
init; libse*, etc. Used to be easy to cause by prelinking and not
running "init u" at some point, too. If you have prelinking enabled,
that could be it.