[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] Distro distro ...

[Bruce Smith]

> >>>A trace shows it's hanging while trying to unload one of the netfilter
> >>>modules.  ipt_state (I think).
> >>Why, exactly, would one want to unload a kernel module while shutting
> >>down? What is the gain?
> >The shutdown runs the scripts to stop each running service.
> >If you were manually shutting down a service (without shutting down),
> >then I guess it makes sense to unload the modules.
> >
> >In this case I don't see a need to stop the firewall service during
> >shutdown, I could remove the "rc" link which would be a work-around to
> >this problem.  (but doesn't solve the problem of unloading a module not
> >working)
> 
> It does seem like a bit of overprogramming to perform an rmmod when the 
> whole system is going away in a few seconds. It's not like we're saving 
> gobs of memory for tons of processing to come....

In the spirit of keeping things simple, I agree with what they're doing.

IMO this is better than having stop scripts (w/o rmmod) for shutdown and
another set of stop scripts for every other situation (w/rmmod).

 - BS