2009/6/15 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bannister<c.bannister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with >> MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this >> causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var >> partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way? > > Well, yes. Shutting down the processes is not very clean. SIGTERM and > later SIGKILL are sent to all processes to tell them to die. The > /etc/rc.d/ daemons have a clean way of shutting down, so those are > done first. There's no way to say "send a SIGTERM to all processes > except those started by rc.d scripts so I can shut those down cleanly" > > If this is truely caused by mpd, I believe our mpd DOES ship with a > rc.d script, and you can configure your user in the /etc/conf.d/ file. > This way mpd will be stopped cleanly on shutdown > Yeah, I build mpd from git and run it as a user not as a daemon which why the problem occurs, ive worked around it by changing soundoff to kill the processes instead of echoing the name to shell.
