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[Dimitri John Ledkov <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

[Impact]

 * systemd-shutdown binary is executed to complete system shutdown. In
xenial, it calls sync() after killing all processes, and not before
killing them. This means that processes are racing the SIGKILL/TERM
timeouts to sync all IO to disk. To mitigate this race condition, and
make the shutdown process more reliable the sync() should also happen
before process killing spree starts.

[Fix]
Backport upstream commit https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/2e79d1828a8da9b3af1b052297e3617905ec94f3


[Test Case]

 * Make sure systems still shuts down, including e.g. root on raid.

[Regression Potential]

 * Shutdowns may appear to be slower due to two sync() calls instead of one
 * However total shutdown time should not be impacted much, as there really should not be much additional IO caused by killing all processes.

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  systemd should sync disks, before killing all processes on shutdown

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * systemd-shutdown binary is executed to complete system shutdown. In
  xenial, it calls sync() after killing all processes, and not before
  killing them. This means that processes are racing the SIGKILL/TERM
  timeouts to sync all IO to disk. To mitigate this race condition, and
  make the shutdown process more reliable the sync() should also happen
  before process killing spree starts.

  [Fix]
  Backport upstream commit https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/2e79d1828a8da9b3af1b052297e3617905ec94f3

  
  [Test Case]

   * Make sure systems still shuts down, including e.g. root on raid.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Shutdowns may appear to be slower due to two sync() calls instead of one
   * However total shutdown time should not be impacted much, as there really should not be much additional IO caused by killing all processes.

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