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dracut-shutdown.service - unpack the initramfs to /run/initramfs

dracut-shutdown.service

This service unpacks the initramfs image to /run/initramfs. systemd pivots into /run/initramfs at shutdown, so the root filesytem can be safely unmounted.

The following steps are executed during a shutdown:

•systemd switches to the shutdown.target

•systemd starts /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/dracut-shutdown.service

•dracut-shutdown.service executes /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-initramfs-restore which unpacks the initramfs to /run/initramfs

•systemd finishes shutdown.target

•systemd kills all processes

•systemd tries to unmount everything and mounts the remaining read-only

•systemd checks, if there is a /run/initramfs/shutdown executable

•if yes, it does a pivot_root to /run/initramfs and executes ./shutdown. The old root is then mounted on /oldroot. /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99shutdown/shutdown.sh is the shutdown executable.

•shutdown will try to umount every /oldroot mount and calls the various shutdown hooks from the dracut modules

This ensures, that all devices are disassembled and unmounted cleanly.

To debug the shutdown process, you can get a shell in the shutdown procedure by injecting "rd.break=pre-shutdown rd.shell" or "rd.break=shutdown rd.shell".

# mkdir -p /run/initramfs/etc/cmdline.d
# echo "rd.break=pre-shutdown rd.shell" > /run/initramfs/etc/cmdline.d/debug.conf
# touch /run/initramfs/.need_shutdown

Harald Hoyer

dracut(8)

2015-03-19 dracut