Re: Can't delete or move /home on 7.3 install

["Glenn E. Bailey III" <replicant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Confirmed as well, thanks! What's really odd is I didn't see
*anything* having a lock on /home, nada, zilch. We have a work-around
in place for this but I was beating my head against the wall trying to
figure it out.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:17:21AM -0800, Glenn E. Bailey III wrote:
>> This is a base install. If you deploy an instance in ec2 or GCE (ec2
>> you can do the free tier) it's easily repeatable. Even on a RHEL 7.3
>> instance. Note you'll need to allow root and password logins via SSH
>> before attempting.
>
> I can confirm this.
>
> The culprit?  NetworkManager has /home open.  I can't figure out
> *WHY*.
>
> # systemctl start NetworkManager.service
> # rmdir /home
> rmdir: failed to remove ‘/home’: Device or resource busy
> # systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
> # rmdir /home
> rmdir: failed to remove ‘/home’: Device or resource busy
> # systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
> # rmdir /home
> rmdir: failed to remove ‘/home’: Device or resource busy
> # systemctl kill NetworkManager.service
> # rmdir /home
> rmdir: failed to remove ‘/home’: Device or resource busy
> # rmdir /home
>
> So it takes some time for all the parts of NetworkManager to die, but
> eventually, they do and you can remove /home.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't see any reason why /home would be in use by
> NM.   Very odd.
>
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