Subject: Re: [vserver] shutdown: "device and target are missing"
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:10:36 +0100

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:59:12PM +0100, Jarry wrote:
> Hi, I noticed one strange message when doing shutdown of one
> of my vserver-guests. I checked the system configuration and
> did not find anything unusual, so I suspect it has something
> to do with vserver. It appears at the very end:

> obelix ~ # vserver vs4-dns stop
>  * Stopping local ...                              [ ok ]
>  * Saving random seed ...                          [ ok ]
>  * Stopping chrooted named ...                     [ ok ]
>  * Stopping fcron ...                              [ ok ]
>  * Stopping syslog-ng ...                          [ ok ]
>  * Terminating remaining processes ...             [ ok ]
>  * Killing remaining processes ...                 [ ok ]
>  * Saving dependency cache ...                     [ ok ]
> Device and target are missing; try '--help' for more information
> obelix ~ #

> What could that last message mean? What "device" and "target"
> could be missing?


I presume that is something distro specific, i.e.
check the scripts which are run on shutdown, especially
the one reporting the 'Saving dependency cache' and of
course any script running after that, including the 
runlevel script dispatcher

I doubt that message is generated by util-vserver :)

best,
Herbert

> BR,
> Jarry
> 
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