Odd interactions

[phil]

A while ago I was pointed at 'apmd' as a way of getting Debian shutdown 
to turn off the computer.  Within the past few days it stopped working 
in what seems like an odd sequence of events.

Just before it failed, I had installed a package of ALSA utilities, 
which dragged in 'udev' as a dependency.  That started giving me 
messages late in the shutdown process about tmpfs (tempfs?) being busy. 
  Unexpectedly, removing the ALSA stuff and 'udev' did not clear up the 
problem.  I then removed and reinstalled the 'apmd' package and, after 
the next reboot, everything was back to working fine.

1) I thought people might find this interesting if anything similar 
happens to them.
2) I assume there's a bug in this scenario somewhere, but I'm not sure 
if it's in 'udev', 'apmd', Debian or something else.  Any reporting 
suggestions?

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Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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