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Today's post is a Q&A with blog reader, Sam. Her honesty, self-awareness and commitment to paying down her debt (no matter how long it takes) is truly inspiring and I feel honored to be able to share her journey. She also recently started a blog (YAY!) so feel free to head over and say hi at Fully Alive 25!
So without further ado, here is Sam's story:
1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Hi, I'm Sam. I graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in May of 2013. I grew up in various suburbs of Chicago, but I moved to Minnesota to live with my boyfriend in October since long distance is THE WORST. Since I moved, I've really gotten into reading again, and joined FIVE book clubs so that I could meet new people, which has been pretty successful.
2. How did you get into debt?
Urgh, this was all my fault, honestly. Long story semi-short, my parents were willing to pay for my college, partly from their savings and partly from their 529 college plan they had for me. Being an only child (and a relatively good kid overall – I might be biased but I think this is still pretty true), going away to college was my first taste of freedom, which…I didn't handle well.
[I was] going out every night and making bad decisions…well, my parents had enough. They were still willing to let me use the 529 money for college, but only for tuition. I would have to fund everything myself – room and board, school books/supplies, etc etc.
I stupidly assumed that my parents were bluffing, but when it finally dawned on me that they weren't, I had to get my finances in gear.
I had two summer jobs, but didn't have nearly the amount of money that was required to go back to school. So I worked it out with my parents that if I would go to community college for a semester and proved to them that I was back on the right path, that they would co-sign for my loans in the future. I also ended up switching my major to one that made me more happy and picking up two minors, but still ended up graduating on time, with about $29,000 in debt. My parents generously gave me the remaining $4,000 in the 529 account to use towards my loan repayment. So technically my debt journey started at $25,000.
Thankfully I had a job waiting for me when I graduated college, which was part salary, part commission. Turned out I was pretty good at it so the commission coupled with living at home for a year, put me at owing only $14,000 after that first year – and I wasn't even really trying to pay off the debt. I just knew that I didn't want to have my student loans forever and started throwing money at it.
But during this time, I was commuting an hour and a half one way to my job, and I was getting tired of the drive. So I moved in with my best friend to a place in a nice neighborhood near my work and things started going downhill again.
Doing well at work gave me more responsibilities which came with more stress…so I started buying lunch so I could get out of the office…Every. Single. Day.
My roommate was a big foodie and I would happily go with her to new and exciting places, regardless of the price. A girl's gotta eat, right? Also, without my parents' supervision, I again started going out more which always had me back at home, drunk and ordering random things on Amazon. Did I get cool stuff? You know it! Butttttt I also ended up racking up nearly $8,000 of credit card debt. Not cool.
I still remember the shame of having to call my parents and ask them to front money for a car down payment AND to co-sign yet another loan.
After my car debt and the loan I took from my parents on top of my credit card debt and student loans, I was at about $35000 – almost $10,000 more than when I started.
3. When will you be debt free?
One of my New Year's resolutions was to knock out all my debt this year and I'm really REALLY trying to make that happen. It will essentially take up most of my paychecks for the rest of the year, but I ran the numbers and it is doable. Worst case, I'll be debt free early 2017.
4. Why did you decide to aggressively pay down your loans?
When my car broke down and I had to ask my parents both for a personal loan AND to co-sign my car loan, it reminded me of the shame I felt my freshman year. Both times I knew that I had messed up, and I was constantly beating myself up for putting myself in these situations and so I decided that I never want to feel that way again, especially when it was something that was avoidable.
Thankfully, the credit card debt was the first thing I knocked out and I know better for the future.
Seeing $1000 in interest was a HUGE wake up call.
5. What are you most looking forward to about being done with debt?
This might be kind of dorky, but I'm really excited to start saving again. I have a set amount direct deposit into my savings every check, but it's SO HARD for me not to "borrow" from my savings to put toward my debt. So I'm excited for that. Plus, if I do end up paying off all my debt by the end of 2016, that means I would have paid off $23,800 this year…which is pretty much the exact amount to max out both your 401k AND a Roth IRA. Which means I could totally survive AND max out my retirement accounts!!!!
6. Strategies you've used for paying it down? Tips? Tricks? Thoughts?
The snowball method was SO helpful. When I knocked out my credit card debt, seeing the amount get smaller and smaller was really motivating. Once I got the credit card debt out of the way, I started being more vocal about my debt and how I had it.
I know that so many people have at least some sort of debt, but it seems like everyone wants to act like they don't. So they go out and spend a ton of money on a lifestyle they can't afford and they just assume that since everyone has debt, that debt is normal. I was one of these people!
So once I started telling people how I had debt and I was trying to pay it off, I made suggestions that were cheaper. Like going to a matinee vs a movie at night. Or having dinner at home vs going out to the bars. People are surprisingly accommodating because, get this, they probably are paying off debt. Or trying to save money. Or really don't like feel like dressing up for that fancy place downtown and would much rather come over in sweats for a chill night!
Also, running the numbers while also tracking your spending is key. This was single handedly the most helpful thing. It got to the point where the last couple of months were about half of what the previous months were.
As of right now, I have $12250 left between my car loan and my loan from my parents and then I'm free! Since I have an exact amount of what I owe, I was able to divide that by the number of paychecks I have left so I know exactly how much of it will have to go to debt for it to be paid off.
$12250 sounds like an overwhelming amount of money to pay off in less than four months but Y payments of $X.XX makes it much easier to swallow. Why do you think all those infomercials use this strategy? Because it works! (Trust me, drunk Sam loved ordering off of those infomercials too)
7. Have you learned anything surprising or unexpected from this journey?
I think the biggest thing I've learned is that I can accomplish a lot as long as I believed in myself. One of the reasons my credit card debt got out of hand was because once the amount started creeping up, I started to get overwhelmed and didn't believe I could handle it.
Once I started running the numbers and breaking the debt into smaller chunks, I was able to start believing I could pay it off.
I might even say I'm thankful for having to have experience debt. Had my parents kept paying for college, I might have never learn how to better manage my money. Nor would I have learn how to better appreciate my parents and their willingness to help me, whether their help was in tough love or financially.
To have paid off almost $35000 in less than three years is not the most impressive debt story, but since I'm on pace to do it, I know what I am capable of now.
8. What advice do you have for other people in debt?
First thing's first, STOP BORROWING MORE. I had to delete my credit cards from my Amazon account and GrubHub profile so that if I wanted to buy something, I had to re-enter everything which most times was enough to make me not. I started using only my debit card, and having auto alerts whenever my account got below $1000 and below $500 which, early on, were serious wake up calls. With debit cards, you can only spend a set amount before you run out. With credit cards, it's easy to lost count of how much you spend. Once you get that below $500 email, you start realizing that your funds are limited.
And like I've mentioned before, track your spending so you know how much you are spending and where, and then start running your numbers. If you add another $50 to your payments, how much sooner will you pay it off? If you did a no spend week, how much money will that save you that you can put towards something else? If you don't know how you spend your money, you don't know how to save your money.
9. Anything else you want to share?
You can do it! If you made it to Taylor's blog, you are already headed in the right direction. And don't be afraid to leave comments or questions on blog posts that you really enjoyed or need clarification on. Personal Finance bloggers are super nice people, and they are airing all their financial information because they want to help others succeed! I've found out some of my best cheerleaders are from this community and it definitely helps when you aren't ready to air out your financial dirty laundry to those in your personal life, but still need to someone to root for you.
Thank you SO much to Sam for sharing her story and KICKING BUTT on her loan repayments. Don't forget to head over to Fully Alive 25 and say hi!


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121 Americans spent $21 billion on bottled waters in 2012, and more and more consumers are investing in a home water filter. A filter can range from an inexpensive carafe or pitcher to a system designed for the whole house, but the latest machine to make waves is the water ionizer, which passes an electrical current through tap water in order to turn it alkaline (i.e., base) through the chemical reaction called electrolysis. Proponents claim alkaline water helps the body neutralize acid in the blood, provides more energy, slows the aging process, and is, according to the online purveyor Alkaline Water Plus, "packed with natural antioxidants [negatively-charged electrons], which are free to naturally fight free radicals .... Drinking
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On this next Monday 11 I'm going to have a colonoscopy to confirm that I have colon cancer (let's hope not), for all the symtomps that I had, and that I have already told you, in my personal message to you. Either way, I started to juice carrots like almost two weeks, and every time I drink them I feel SO MUCH BETTER, and I don't even have diarrhea, neither my bowel sounds much, like when I wasn't drinking it. The Alkaline Water Machine Helped too. Even my seeing has improve, because I was using a 0.25 glasses for tired eyes, and since I'm drinking carrot juice, I don't feel like I need those anymore. That just make me think along with your testimony, and all the information on this page, that doctors ususally don't recommend or prescibed fruits or vegetables to help people's diseases or little troubles, like the one I had with my tired eyes. My ophthalmologist straightly prescribed me multivitamin drops for my eyes, instead of recommending me to eat or drink carrots, that just have help me a lot more than his drops.
Latest update. So after we had the Pet Scan which showed no signs of cancer and we told the surgeon we would just wiat observe and not proceed with any treatment. He suggested that Nigel undergo a colonoscopy so he can see whats left in the rectum. As I sat with Nigel in the recovery room - he walked in and said - 'this is a miracle' - the photo of the rectum is so clear and in his words he could not find anything. We just stopped by a cafe and had guess what ?? "Carrot Juice " - God is great!! Through Christ all things are possible!. 317
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Way down south
Meet Newsan, the company that has taken the production of consumer electronics - quite literally - further than anybody else. E&T reports on the southern-most factory in the world.
Almost at the exact point in the world map where South America dips its tail into the freezing waters that join the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, one company is defying the laws of logistics by manufacturing a range of consumer electronics products at a place that's closer to Antarctica than it is to Buenos Aires, the nearest capital city and major centre of consumption in Argentina.
La ciudad del fin del mundo - the city at the end of the world may well be a motto that has served Ushuaia well to attract a growing number of tourists over the years. It is also a statement of fact: no other city (with the exception of the small town of Puerto Williams, located on the other side of the Beagle Channel) exists at a more southerly latitude than Ushuaia.
At 54° 48' S, continental South America has already curled its last. Ushuaia stands on the southern coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego, which is shared between Argentina and Chile and separated from mainland South America by the Strait of Magellan.
The southernmost of the provinces that form the Argentinean side of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego has Ushuaia, its capital, and Rio Grande, located 230km to the north east, as its two main urban centres. In the late 1970s, both cities witnessed the establishment of their own industrial parks, courtesy of a law that the Argentine government passed in 1972 declaring the island a special economic zone.
Looking to boost the demographic and economic development of this remote area of the country, the government put in place a series of tax incentives that have since transformed Tierra del Fuego into the unlikely base for the production of consumer electronics goods and home appliances in the country.
Operating four of the five surviving plants dedicated to the production and assembly of electronics goods in Ushuaia, Newsan has learned to live with the many challenges that come with being the southern-most manufacturing company in the world.
Rio Grande Vs Ushuaia
The origin of Newsan dates back to 1979, when Sanelco (a company belonging to Japan's Sanyo) opened the first industrial facility for consumer electronics production in Ushuaia. In 1991 Sanelco merged with Sansei (an Argentine company that had established its own plant in the city in 1986), resulting in the official creation of the Newsan Group.
Fernando Notti, industrial director of Newsan and vice president of the main association of manufacturers of Tierra del Fuego, has played a key role in the positioning of Ushuaia as an alternative hub to Rio Grande for electronic production in the island. By the time Notti was tasked with designing and building Sansei's first plant in 1986, he had already been responsible for the setting up in 1981 of a similar manufacturing facility for Philco, an American OEM.
"Rio Grande's industrial park is actually much more important than that of Ushuaia's," says Notti. "Right from the start of this industrial promotion policy, the emphasis has been on the development of Rio Grande."
Unlike Ushuaia, which has tourism and the fact that it is the province's capital as its main drivers for development, Rio Grande has traditionally been perceived as less resourceful - and, therefore, more deserving of the lion's share of the state help package.
"The government made everything it could to make companies want to establish in Rio Grande," says Notti. "There is no specific legislation stating this or any prohibition to set up a facility anywhere else in Tierra del Fuego. But there are policies in place which tend to favour the establishment there. In Rio Grande, for example, you can acquire public land at a very low price, often also enjoying long repayment terms. This isn't the case in Ushuaia, where there is less available land and prices are higher."
Still, when Notti had to make a decision about where to locate Philco's plant, he went with Ushuaia - much to the annoyance of the company's finance department: "They all wanted to set up in Rio Grande," he recalls. "'Why pay there for something we could practically get for free here?' they would ask."
But Notti had some strong arguments in favour of Ushuaia: "In my report at the time I presented four main arguments. The first one was that Ushuaia, unlike Rio Grande, had a natural deep-water port, which I always thought was a big advantage."
With the exception of Newsan and Ambassador Fueguina (a Chinese-owned firm producing cathode ray tube TV sets, and the only other electronics company operating in Ushuaia today), all other manufacturers including Philips, Delphi and Radio Victoria (makers of Hitachi, RCA, Kelvinator and TCL products) are based in Rio Grande.
Wherever their chosen location, all of these companies need to bring the vast majority of their supplies from Asia, mainly China. But while Newsan and Ambassador Fueguina can unload the cargo containers from ships moored next to their plants, the other firms still need to haul the containers via lorry up to Rio Grande.
As for the finished products, Rio Grande-based manufacturers will normally put their merchandise in a lorry and drive it all the way up to Buenos Aires, some 3,000km away, while Ushuaian firms will - whenever possible - make the same trip by sea, thereby slashing costs.
"My second argument was that, due to the incipient, but marked tendency that could already be observed in the early 1980s of companies establishing in Rio Grande, I could foresee an issue with competition for labour." This was a prediction Notti says proved correct.
His third argument was that, with the provincial government based in Ushuaia, being next to decision-making and control institutions would be advantageous. "This was obviously much more important in the 1980s than it is today," he concedes. His final argument had to do with what he calls the "higher socio-economic-cultural level" of Ushuaia residents.
Tierra del Fuego as a commercial hub
What privileges do manufacturers producing in Tierra del Fuego enjoy? Apart from being exempt from import duties for supplies, and export duties for the finished product they are crucially allowed to introduce the manufactured goods into Argentina's mainstream distribution market and charge IVA (a VAT-like tax), but keep to themselves the profits they make from IVA. They are also exempt from gains tax.
In order for them to enjoy these benefits, they need to be able to demonstrate that a "minimum production process" has been involved in the manufacture of the goods they intend to bring to the continent.
Each manufacturing sector with a presence on the island has its own set of requirements as to what constitutes a minimum production process. As a general rule in the case of consumer electronics, if the printed circuit board (PCB) that will be at the heart of a product is to be imported, it has to be completely 'naked' when it arrives at the factory.
"The insertion of all electronic components onto the PCB - be it automatic or manual - has to be fully carried out in Tierra del Fuego," explains Notti. "Those who think of Tierra del Fuego as a location where a mere assembling process takes place are wrong."
Newsan has around US$20m of capital invested in equipment used for automatic insertion alone. The company uses both surface-mount (SMT) and through-hole technology for this initial, robotic phase of components insertion.
Following any necessary manual insertion work, the PCB is subjected to an automatic wave-soldering process before entering a phase of inspection, adjustment and verification. "Only after this phase has been completed can we take the product to the final assembly line," notes Notti.
Against the fiscal benefits that manufacturers based in the island enjoy, they face a series of added costs that must be carefully weighed when evaluating which products might or might not be profitable to build.
Chief among these costs is shipping. While a 12m container full of televisions made in China can be shipped to Buenos Aires for $2,500, bringing the same container from China to Ushuaia (as Newsan needs to do to get its supplies) will set it back $4,000. Once the product is assembled, the most economic means of transportation to Buenos Aires will add another $800 to the bill.
The second added cost is labour. "The lack of a large pool of workers, as well as mounting trade union pressure, means that salaries in Tierra del Fuego are slightly higher than those in Buenos Aires and the rest of the country," says Notti.
He adds that, with high inflation and an exchange rate that has remained virtually static for the past two years, labour costs in Argentina today are comparable to those of Europe.
Unsurprisingly, Newsan and the rest of the consumer electronics manufacturers based in this remote island are finding it difficult to justify the assembly of certain products. "What we're seeing is that some products have stopped being manufactured in Tierra del Fuego," says Notti.
Take hi-fi audio systems. Until not long ago, 50 per cent of the Argentine market for this product was supplied from Tierra del Fuego plants. Newsan was the leading manufacturer, churning out 350,000 units annually. Today, the company does not make a single audio system. "The numbers just don't add up," says Notti.
"We went from being the number one manufacturer of audio systems to the number one importer of this product. Because the company doesn't lose the business - it simply changes its source of supply."
The production of DVD players and small televisions suffered a similar fate. This has left Newsan with only four products currently being manufactured in Ushuaia: LCD/plasma screens, CRT TVs, air conditioning systems and microwave ovens.
The prospects for 2009 aren't particularly rosy, either. With the exception of LCD and plasma TVs sales, which are expected to grow this year, the three other products built by the company will see sales slide.
"From our company's manufacturing point of view, we need to have an economy of scale that could help make our costs competitive. The more products you kill, the more economies of scale you lose and the higher the incidence of your fixed costs over the value of an hour's labour cost," says Notti.
"In 2008 we ended up producing the equivalent of 1.1 million hours. This year, considering the market outlook and the fact that some products are not affordable to build any more, we'll struggle go beyond 800,000 hours," he anticipates.


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Aventurin{e} has been in active development since 2006. It started out as a fork of the Open Source project BlueQuartz by two of the junior developers of the BlueQuartz project: Brian N. Smith and Michael Stauber. The idea was to use core elements of the BlueQuartz GUI interface and to mate it with the OpenVZ container based virtualization engine in order to create and manage OpenVZ Virtual Private Containers. The initial version of Aventurin{e} with the model number 6102R ran on CentOS 4 and was released in 2007. In 2008 Aventurin{e} 6105R on CentOS 5 was released and it was also the first version of Aventurin{e} with optional Cluster support. In 2011 we released Aventurin{e} 6106R on Scientific Linux 6, which retained the optional Cluster support.
The latest version of Aventurin{e} is currently Aventurin{e} 6108R on Scientific Linux 6. Development of Aventurin{e} 6109R on CentOS 7 is in the very early stages with a tentative release date of first quarter 2017.
Aventurin{e} version numbers:
- Aventurin{e} 6109R - CentOS 7 + OpenVZ 7 + Chorizo GUI - Pre-Alpha and in active development
- Aventurin{e} 6108R - SL 6 + OpenVZ (Legacy) + Chorizo GUI - Stable Release
- Aventurin{e} 6106R - SL 6 + OpenVZ (Legacy) + Sausalito GUI - Old Stable Release - EOL in January 2017
- Aventurin{e} 6105R - CentOS 5 + OpenVZ (Legacy) + Sausalito GUI - EOL since March 2013
- Aventurin{e} 6102R - CentOS 4 + OpenVZ (Legacy) + Sausalito GUI - EOL since March 2012
General Technical Overview:
Aventurin{e} is available as ISO image and can be installed on x86_64 compatible PC or server hardware. The install is as easy as it gets: Boot off the CD, press return in the CD boot menu and lean back. The rest of the install is fully automated. The disk(s) will get erased, partitioned and - if two disks are found - software RAID is activated. The package selection and installation is totally hands free and within 10-30 minutes (depending on the speed of your hardware) the installer will ask you to remove the CD and to perform a reboot. During the first login into your freshly installed Aventurin{e} the login details will be shown on the login console. A shell based setup assistant is automatically started upon first login to allow you to configure the network. Once this is done, you can directly go to the GUI interface of your freshly installed Aventurin{e} and can start to create and manage OpenVZ virtual private servers.
The base OS of Aventurin{e} 6108R is Scientific Linux 6, which - like CentOS 6 - is a free and open source clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. We chose Scientific Linux 6 over CentOS 6 because the choice between the two doesn't really matter. They are as good as binary compatible and you can use RPMs for one of them on the other as well. SL6 is (like CentOS 6) an RPM based distribution and uses YUM as package manager.
The GUI interface of Aventurin{e} runs on an Apache webserver (on special ports for HTTP and HTTPS) and uses PHP, jQuery, CSS3, Perl, Shell scripts and a special daemon written in C+ called CCEd. The GUI uses an Object oriented database called CODB to store management information. This GUI interface is called "Chorizo" and has about 80% commonality with the Open Source GUI interface of BlueOnyx - our sister project. BlueOnyx has been around since 2008 and traces it's origins back to BlueQuartz and the Cobalt RaQ's. The general design philosophy of the GUI interface emphasizes security. GUI users are authenticated against the PAM database and strict ACL's are applied to limit the scope of actions a user can take. Various levels of ACL's exist and define which parts of the GUI interface are accessible to a user. As any other web based GUI interface the Aventurin{e} GUI needs to perform certain transactions with elevated privileges ('root' access) in order to modify system config files and to manipulate system services. Aventurin{e} does this with security first and foremost in mind. All GUI transactions run as unprivileged user and are routed through the CCEd and CODB backend. Certain CODB transactions then - if all security related parameters are met - trigger a handler, which executes a very limited and specific transaction with elevated privileges. This allows for a very robust and secure GUI with all the flexibility we need and the robustness that we want.
Specifications for a 6108R Server:
It really depends on the expected usage. If you just want to run a single small hobby related VPS or a small intranet server, then the required hardware demands could be as low as this:
- x86_64 compatible single core CPU (2 GHz or faster)
- 4 GB of RAM
- +30 GB of disk space
That would be enough for some hobbyist usage, but don't expect too much off it. It is also possible to install and run Aventurin{e} on blades, like IBM blade centers. Of course the typical blade comes with only 2.5" disks and typically diskspace is a limiting factor that not really allows you to run many large VPS's. However, some key features of Aventurin{e} - like easy migrations, independence of hardware and the built in backup facility - make it desirable to run Aventurin{e} even though you'll run only a single VPS on that hardware.
Virtualization under Linux lives and breathes with CPU cores, fast RAM and fast I/O throughput of speedy hard disks. The more and the faster, the better the end result. Intel i3, i5, i7 or Xeon's with multiple cores are always a good choice. The i3 only for light weight stuff (due to lack of enough cores). For a long time our own Aventurin{e} servers for the BlueOnyx and Aventurin{e} project ran on 4 cores (Intel i5) and made do with 32 GB of RAM and 1-2TB of disk space each. We have since a bit outgrown that, but both back then (and today) we did run up to 30 VPS's per node. We do have clients who run Aventurin{e} on monster hardware with dozens of CPU cores, 200GB of RAM and terabytes of storage attached. In some cases these clients also started small on modest hardware. And eventually outgrew them. But in those cases they could simply "vzmigrate" the running VPS's off the old Aventurin{e} and live-migrate them to the new one.
Included OS Templates:
Aventurin{e} 6108R comes with the following OpenVZ OS templates, which will get installed during the first YUM update right after the initial setup:
- BlueOnyx 5209R
- BlueOnyx 5208R
- BlueOnyx 5207R
Additional OS templates are also available via YUM:
- BlueOnyx 5108R
- BlueOnyx 5107R
- BlueOnyx 5106R
- CentOS 7 (minimal)
- CentOS 6 (minimal)
- CentOS 5 (minimal)
Further precreated OS templates for OpenVZ can be downloaded and installed from other sources as well.
Aventurin{e} Licensing and Terms of Usage:
In the past Aventurin{e} was closed source commercial software. We decided to change our stance on this. It is now partially open source and partially closed source. The closed source parts are those that directly deal with the interface between OpenVZ and the Chorizo GUI Interface. The licensing has been relaxed, so that it's now permissible to distribute unmodified binary copies of the Aventurin{e} 6108R ISO image.
The freely available version of Aventurin{e} 6108R allows you to create and manage a single OpenVZ virtual private server. That will also allow you to give Aventurin{e} a test ride before you commit to a purchase. Or if you are a hobbyist user who just wants to manage a single VPS, then you're welcome to run Aventurin{e} 6108R without ever purchasing a license extension.
A commercial license needs to be purchased if you want to unlock the GUI in order to run and manage 5, 10, 15, 20 or an unlimited number of OpenVZ VPS's. In that case you will receive a serial number and license key, which can be installed via the GUI interface. Once activated the GUI unlocks the ability to manage as many VPS's as your license extension allows.
Further details about the terms and conditions can be found in the Aventurin{e} License Agreement.


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What do Old Bay potato chips, the Potomac River and IT monitoring have in common? They all converged at ScienceLogic Symposium in National Harbor, Maryland at the end of October, where I had the opportunity to represent Citrix as one of their technology partners. ScienceLogic is a CitrixReady certified partner that has IT monitoring software that integrates with Citrix CloudPlatform.
I learned that more and more companies are collapsing the number of toolsets they're using and are looking to simplify hybrid IT delivery and accelerate the route to market of new service offerings while still providing security and compliance with a centralized platform.
As you may know, Citrix CloudPlatform fits as a control layer on top of compute, network and storage infrastructure. It also handles the infrastructure management including the provisioning of the control plane and setting of policies. ScienceLogic's EM7 is a robust API-based software that monitors these policies for smooth running of the entire datacenter environment.
Getting Citrix Ready Certified
To get Citrix Ready certified, ScienceLogic built use cases targeting CloudPlatform environments. By looking at all of the different APIs exposed to integration vendors and pulling in that information, it created asset or device records that then flowed through typical IT operations processes and provided aggregated pass-through trend and usage metrics. With multi-tenant views that abstract information based on a service or a client, a service provider or enterprise is able to carve off aspects of the infrastructure to feed different lines of business. They used EM7 to then provide event management across all the aggregated data tied to an individual component or the related service.
EM7 Integration with Citrix CloudPlatform
When integrating with CloudPlatform, EM7 looks at the modeling of all the different layers of architecture including zones, pods, clusters, hosts, VMs and system VMs and breaks out these elements of the API for complete infrastructure visibility. It can run multiple CloudPlatform environments (e.g., single instances per organization/division) and aggregate them to a common framework. Here are a few examples when you can use this:
- If you expand a new pod or had challenges with capacity at the pod level, EM7 can abstract that out and alert the appropriate group as well as provide history of a prior architecture.
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Why All Americans Believe They're Middle Class, The Atlantic
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Sex Selection in America: Why It Persists and How to Change It, The Atlantic, co-authored with Sujatha Jesudason
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The Executive MBA is our flagship part-time qualification aimed individuals with some management experience, with the potential for a successful career in strategic management and with the aspiration to achieve a leadership position.
The course adopts a practice-led curriculum and aims to develop an advanced knowledge of organisations and their effective management in the dynamic competitive global context, and the ability to apply this knowledge and understanding to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management practice.
The assessment strategy is as follows:
1. The underpinning philosophy of all the assessments is developmental, building on your knowledge, expertise and capabilities to ensure that you are an able and confident leader and manager. This emphasis will enable you to explore, experience and develop your understanding of leadership, management and innovation within the context of your business and personal needs.
2. This is exemplified by the Leadership Project and the Integrated Management Project. These two units will allow considerable autonomy for participants to reflect upon their personal models of leadership in terms of their individual competence areas. Critical evaluation and reflective observation skills are developed in the context of personal effectiveness which will facilitate critique across a range of leadership issues in business environments. The two projects are inter-linked in that the Leadership Project provides an essential theoretical and personal conceptual foundation which is then applied in the Company Strategic Analysis project which integrates all other aspects of the course within the case study of an individual organisation.
3. The overall aim of the assessment strategy is that you will receive constructive feedback from your course tutors, and student peers within the group. The team will support you to help you to use this feedback as part of your continuing professional and self-development and to ensure you are enabled to do this you will be provided with group and individual tutorial support from the team. This, in turn, links to your personal and professional development unit offered on the course. Your tutor will give you the active guidance to plan the next stages of your learning. This opportunity for supported self-reflection will enable you to take charge of your learning through developing critical evaluation and planning skills.
4. To facilitate and maximise learning for all students a range of assessment methods are used throughout the course and you will be required to undertake a variety of group and individual based assessments throughout the duration of the course. These assessments include individual and group written feedback assignments and projects, action learning reports as well as presentations They are all rooted in authentic and practical workplace scenarios to enable learning to be transferred to the workplace. The assessments are designed to test knowledge and understanding of the appropriate underpinning theoretical input and research, but also to demonstrate your skills. An appropriate sample of all assessed work will be subject to multiple marking and external moderation to ensure appropriate quality standards and intended learning outcomes are achieved as well as consistency and fairness to all. The course will maintain a balance between examinations and assignments (group and individual) and may employ other formats including online tests and presentations. The final project the Integrated Management Project, pulls together all aspects of the course through a detailed review of a specific organisation.
5. Apart from the formal assessments there will be an emphasis on self and peer assessment. However all formal assessments will be marked, graded and moderated by professional tutors only. The aim is for you to become an independent and self-directed lifelong learner and you will not only gain the skills and advantages of using self-reflection but you will gain more feedback from the conventional tutor-student written feedback. This will be used primarily as part of a formative assessment process within the units, rather than in the summative part, where moderation by others may be used.
The Dissertation stage of the Executive MBA is defined as:
Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.
To apply for a place on a postgraduate course (MA/MSc/MBA) at the University of Bedfordshire you should have a good first degree and the required English language qualification
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To apply for a postgraduate degree (MA/MSc/MBA/LLM) at the University of Bedfordshire you should have a good honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in an appropriate subject from a recognised university or HE institution.
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In order to benefit from the degree you will need to have an educational, experiential or professional base that involves working with others in a management capacity. In order to cope with the demands of the course you should have:
You may discuss with the Course Director before acceptance for the degree and he/she will explain more fully to you the implications and intended outcomes of the course and explore with you your ability to engage in the learning requirements of the qualification.
We anticipate that when you complete your degree you will possess the ability to become a positive change agent in any organisation and an obvious champion for the added value of a dynamic and innovative organisational culture. You will also have had extensive and continuous opportunity for reflective and critical evaluation of your capability as a team worker and leader. The course may also equip you to start your own business or expand the business you are in.
The course includes a professional and personal development strand that will be assessed. This will enable you to enhance your employability skills, reflect on the skills and knowledge you may need to accelerate your career and bring value to your current and future employment. This relates to a key theme in the Education Strategy that offers you the opportunity to participate in a curriculum that is focused on employability and that enables all students to maximise their opportunities.
During the course you will have extensive networking opportunities within the wider course team as well as the University. You can talk through career and further development opportunities with your tutor as well as your peers and wider circle. Whatever you decide to do you will have a toolkit of knowledge and capabilities developed from the course that will support and enable you.
Whether you want to learn a new language, build networks, simply have the travel bug, or want to develop new skills and life experiences, our Go Global programme offers the opportunity to broaden your horizons, enhance your CV, and gain a truly international experience, all at the same time as studying towards your undergraduate degree. The Go Global programme is open to students from the UK and EU.
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At the University of Bedfordshire we ensure that your experience here is cultural, as well as academic. That's why a whole host of opportunities are opened up to you, providing you with that all important experience to make you stand out from the crowd when it comes to getting graduates jobs.
Our International students meanwhile, can make the most of trips to a series of exciting European destinations. From France and Belgium, to Holland and Germany, there are plenty of places to visit, network and broaden your knowledge of the global market place, by seeing and experiencing it for yourself, first-hand.
At the University of Bedfordshire we ensure that your experience here is cultural, as well as academic. That's why a whole host of opportunities are opened up to you, providing you with that all important experience to make you stand out from the crowd when it comes to getting graduates jobs.
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Our flagship £34m Campus Centre is funky and functional. It brings together all our student services, social and learning spaces, and a 240-seat lecture theatre under one roof.
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Designed for work as well as play, the Campus Centre incorporates relaxed learning zones with Wi-Fi access.
It also features the Students' Union support services and executive offices alongside places to eat
Our contemporary en-suite accommodation features 852 fully-furnished flats, just part of our accommodation offering of more than 1,500 study rooms.
This exciting new facility includes:
Whatever degree you choose the facilities will be first class:
The Luton campus is right in the centre of town next to a large shopping mall and within easy walking distance of the student halls, train and bus stations.
Luton is the largest town in Bedfordshire and is approximately 50km north of London.
It has excellent transport links to the rest of the UK and Europe, and central London is only a 30-minute train journey away.
Luton is has excellent transport links to other cities such as Manchester, Leeds and Milton Keynes. London Luton Airport is located just 2.5km from the Luton campus.
UK students applying for most postgraduate degrees at the University of Bedfordshire should apply direct using our admissions form
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It has been nearly three weeks since 52 year old Bipin Patel was struck and killed by a driver as he pedaled home from work one afternoon. Patel, who lived just three miles from his job, was struck on Great Mall Parkway by a maroon SUV going west on Mantague Expressway. The driver did not stop.
Patel's wife remains in disbelief over the whole incident, saying that it feels like he's just away on business and will be home anytime.
"It's hard to imagine him lying there without help for x amount of time, we're not sure. That's something we'll have to picture in our heads," said Chandn Patel, the oldest of Bipin's three children.
Chandn hopes that the driver will come forward to offer the family some answers, and maybe just a bit of peace in dealing with their loss. She believes her father would have wanted the family to forgive the driver and wishes no harm on the still unidentified motorist.
Patel was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, suffering a major brain injury. In his death, however, others have survived, with the donation of his organs helping to save the lives of four others.
The San Jose Police are still looking for the vehicle, but have not released any information regarding the investigation, ensuring that they are thorough and discreet. "We may not tell the public we're looking for a vehicle because then the suspect knows we're looking for a vehicle and try to hide it or get it fixed. So we want to make sure we follow up on all the leads we can before we go to the public.", said Police Sergeant Raj Maharaj.
Although the driver failed to stop, the family still believes there is time to make things right.
The compassion and understanding of the Patel family is commendable, but the hit and run driver still must be accountable for his or her actions. Collisions do happen and some are a motorist's fault and some are the bicyclist's fault and some are a combination of both or the fault of a dangerous roadway. But when you strike and injure another human being, how you conduct yourself after the fact is the true measure of character. This driver should have stopped, assisted Bipin, and took responsibility for their actions. Stopping to assist someone that you may have injured in an accident is your duty, and may save a life. Leaving the scene of an injury accident may actually be what causes a death. And if that hit and run is what caused a death, that is intentional and that is murder as well as wrongful death. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Patel family and we commend your amazingly human and compassionate attitude.
Since this is a legal blog, I will give my legal opinion. This family hopefully had a car and car insurance. They can and should make a claim under the uninsured motorist provisions of their own policy. It may not be much, but sending this hit and run driver to jail won't put any food on the table or help the Patel family to compensate for the income lost with Mr. Patel's passing. Again, you have our sincere condolences and we hope anyone who has any information about this hit and run driver contacts the police right away.
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- Caloriesfromfat 31%
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
So, like in prior years, I had the bouncing castle party with a few friends.
This year was a greater success than previous years, as hundreds showed up.
Getting people to come to any event in LA is hard. Getting hundreds of high quality people to come, all of them our friends, was simply amazing.
There was a 68% chance of rain, but luckily we ended up in the 32% chance that it would n't rain.
I didn't bring my camera, but was lucky my friends Katalina and Karenpreet did bring.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142532
error unmounting /var filesystem while shutdown
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:05 EST
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Description of problem:
While shutting down or reboot vi init 0 or 6 I got the messages
Unmounting filesystems: umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /var: device is busy
The error occours 3 times more (while loop in /etc/init.d/halt).
I have placed a lsof in /etc/init.d/halt:
while [ -n "$remaining" -a "$retry" -gt 0 ]
if [ "$retry" -lt 3 ]; then
LANG=C runcmd $"Unmounting file systems (retry): " umount -f
LANG=C runcmd $"Unmounting file systems: " umount -f $remaining
sleep 2
remaining=`halt_get_remaining | sort -r`
[ -z "$remaining" ] && break
/sbin/fuser -k -m $sig $remaining >/dev/null
lsof /var
sleep 5
There are no open files.
All services stopping without failing before. The machine acts as a
Samba server. Only standard service like ssh, cron and so on are
active too.
The problem is hardware indepent and occours in 90% of all shutdown or
reboot processes, not always.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installing RHEL3ES with Update 3 on a machine.
2. Let the server running for a while (some minutes seem to be enough).
3. Do an init 0 or init 6.
Actual Results: /var filesystem could not be unmounted.
Expected Results: /var filesystem should be unmounted without errors
Additional info:
Stopping all running services and unmounting /var filesystem by hand
seems to be no problem.
The /var filesystem is a separate lvm volume and ext3-formatted.
After rebooting the filsystem seems to be clean, no fsck is running.
Are you using the audit daemon, or is it disabled?
Yes, the audit daemon is up and running. But I can stop and start this
daemon properly by hand. Is there any configuration issue for the
audit daemon?
Just testing a theory... I'm assuming stopping the audit daemon
beforehand doesn't affect this.
I have been having the same issue on several servers as well. The
/var filesystem on the servers having the issue are just normal ext3
filesystems, no lvm or raid. RHEL 3 update 3.
That's right, I've seen the problem since using update 3, but never
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that backing down to the U2
initscripts doesn't help?
I think vixie-cron-3.0.1-75.1 problem.
vixie-cron-3.0.1-75.1 supports laus logging.
When audit is off as Bugzilla#131860, this problem dos not occur.
Well, since I did a "chkconfig audit off" the problem doesn't occour
*** Bug 143694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"Just testing a theory... I'm assuming stopping the audit daemon
beforehand doesn't affect this."
That is correct, if the audit daemon has been started and you stop it
(even killing the process with kill), the problem still occurs.
Even once a cron scripts (e.g. /etc/cron.d/sysstat) is executed
during audit daemon is running, this problem occurs.
You need to stop audit daemon before the next record appears.
---- /var/log/cron ----
CROND[3063]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg)
CROND[3065]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
---- /var/log/cron ----
This problem does not occur on vixie-cron-3.0.1-74.
Sorry, my poor English.
A note: As described in Issue 44127, lsof will not show open files if they
belong to detached threads created by a parent thread which has exited. This may
explain why lsof is not showing files held by daemons.
Thsi is from HP:
Did some further testing. Here are my results:
1) As we both noticed, /var must be on its own partition
2) I can reproduced the umount failure on shutdown when
vixie-cron-3.0.1-75.1 which comes
with RHEL 3.0 U3 is installed. It is timing related, and you have to
wait until you see
audit messages indicating that cron has loaded entry:
2005-01-13T11:23:36 2 1523 -1 cron: crontab entry loaded -
uid=0, g
id=0, cmd=run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
2005-01-13T11:23:36 3 1523 -1 cron: crontab entry loaded -
uid=0, g
id=0, cmd=run-parts /etc/cron.daily
2005-01-13T11:23:36 4 1523 -1 cron: crontab entry loaded -
uid=0, g
id=0, cmd=run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
2005-01-13T11:23:36 5 1523 -1 cron: crontab entry loaded -
uid=0, g
id=0, cmd=run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
2005-01-13T11:23:36 6 1523 -1 cron: crontab loaded -
rontab, user=*system*
After that, I can see the umount /var failures on shutdown.
3) If I install vixie-cron-3.0.1-74 which came with RHEL 3.0 U2:
rpm -Uvh --force vixie-cron-3.0.1-74
I can't get it to fail. Even after letting it sit for hours then doing a shutdown.
4) If I go back to the vixie-cron-3.0.1-75.1, I can then eventually get
it to fail given the items in #2 above.
When the problem occurs, what are the last few lines of
/var/log/cron ?
Please append the output of the command:
# tail -100 /var/log/cron
to this bug report.
You might try installing the latest cron version for RHEL-3:
It may not be in RHEL-3 update channels yet - if not, it can
be downloaded from:
Created attachment 110954 [details]
tail -100 of cron log as requested.
We have a customer having the same issue. The vixie-cron patch
mentioned above did not worked out for him. Attached is his cron file
(tail -100, anyways).
This is not a vixie-cron OR a laus issue.
If in /etc/init.d/halt, the script that does the umounts and prints
the messages:
Unmounting filesystems: umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /var: device is busy
you do a listing of active processes with open files, using "lsof",
just before the code that prints the message, around line 157:
while [ -n "$remaining" -a "$retry" -gt 0 ]
echo 'LSOF /var:'
/sbin/lsof +D /var
echo 'LSOF:'
/sbin/lsof | /bin/egrep -v 'lsof|egrep'
if [ "$retry" -lt 3 ]; then
(copy /usr/sbin/lsof to /sbin/lsof first)
If you then issue the 'halt' command, you can see all the processes
that have any files on /var or that are still running, using the
<shift> + <page up> / <page down> keys to view the process listing.
This shows NO instances of auditd or vixie-cron or any process that
has a file open under the /var partition.
The only processes that are running at this point are:
Because only init and the kernel daemons are running at this point,
and we've verified that init has no open files on /var, this seems
to be a kernel issue, in that either:
A) The umount(2) system call is failing for no good reason
or B) One or other of the kernel daemons (eg. kjournald) is blocking
the umount .
Kernel debugging needs to be enabled to get to the bottom of this.
I'm moving this bug to the kernel .
Please install and run the kernel-smp-2.4.21-28.umount3.EL.i686.rpm
kernel located in:
It contains several debug statements that will be displayed in
the failure path of a umount attempt. The output will be of
the sort:
do_umount: EBUSY: mnt_count: # flags: !MNT_DETACH
do_umount: super_block: dirty: # locked: # open: #
where the mnt_count # will be 3 or more, and there may be non-zero
counts for dirty, locked and open files (if we're lucky).
It's just a start, but will at least let us know whether there are
file-related reasons for the umount failure, or if not whether we
only have the mnt_count to work with (which should be 2 at umount
time), but would be higher if there was either a process standing
in the /var filesystem, or a mntget() call not accompanied by an
associated mntput().
I've tested the problem with the debug kernel now - the output during
the unmount phase of /etc/init.d/halt is:
Unmounting file systems (retry): \
do_umount: EBUSY: mnt_count: 9 flags: !MNT_DETACH
do_umount: super_block: dirty: 426 locked: 0 open: 0
sys_umount: do_umount returned EBUSY
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /var: device is busy
Again, the 'lsof +D/var' showed NO open files on /var, and ONLY
these processes were running:
S01halt (/bin/bash)
and the lsof listing showed NO open files on /var .
I also tried inserting a 'sync' command into the retry loop,
thinking that might clear the super-block dirty condition,
but no joy.
The last umount debug output of the kernel ( the retry loop
tries three times) differed from that above only in this line:
do_umount: super_block: dirty: 0 locked: 0 open: 0
So this means that the SB is NOT dirty, there are NO locked or
open files, yet still the umount fails ?
This problem is intermittent : it does not happen unless the
auditd has been running and audit messages have been emitted ;
but at the point where the umount fails, auditd is definitely
not running; but the audit module is still loaded. Could this
be something to do with the audit module ?
I've never used netdump / crashdump before, but would be happy
to try to generate a crash if that would help - some tips on
setting it up would be helpful.
I've also tried inserting :
/sbin/rmmod audit
in halt's retry loop, but again the problem occurs.
Again the umount debug says:
do_umount: super_block: dirty: 0 locked: 0 open: 0
These are the modules still loaded at this point:
nfs lockd sunrpc usbserial parport_pc lp parport tulip
crc32 floppy sg microcode keybdev mousedev hid input
ehci-hcd usb-uhci usbcore ext3 jbd ata_piix scsi_dump_register
libata sd_mod scsi_mod
NO audit module is loaded.
When the auditd process is not started and the machine is immediately
shutdown after starting, the umount sometimes succeeds and this
problem does not occur - about once out of 10 tries .
Hey, Jason, sorry I didn't even realize you were in Westford!
(We're getting too big here...) I'll definitely come over later
and set up for a netdump.
By the way, when the dirty/locked/open counts drop to zero,
what was the "mnt_count" shown in the printk just above it
at that point?
We've finally found the root cause of this bug:
whenever auditd does a read() of the /dev/audit
device, the kernel's mnt_get count for the /var
partition increases by 7, and then never decreases
below 9 - umount() will succeed only if the mnt_get
count is 2 . This happens regardless of whether auditd
keeps its log files on /var or not. We are currently
working on a fix for this.
I've put a new "umount4" test kernel in /usr/tmp on your machine,
along with its debuginfo package. It will trace all mntget()'s
done during the auditf_read() span. Because mntget is a very
commonly-called function, tt also might help if you boot the system
with "maxcpus=1" so that we don't get any intermingling of trace
Test kernels with a fix for this problem can be found in:
There are 3 i686 kernels there:
If a non-i686 kernel is needed, please post a request for it here.
Any idea when this fix will be implemented in an official kernel?
More important; is this issue and imortant on or should i just ignore the error
untill a new kernel with this fix is available?
That's up to the RHEL3 kernel maintainer, but my presumption is
that it will be in RHEL3-U6. At this point in time, the question
is whether it's going to be considered for a RHEL3-U5 re-spin,
but again, that's not my call to make.
It's a problem having to do with improper up-by-one reference
counts on the files and their containing directories in
/etc/audit/filesets.conf. The contents of those files should
not be compromised by this bug.
Dave's fix will not be considered for a U5 respin, but it is
on track for inclusion within the first couple of U6 builds.
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U6
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-32.2.EL).
Super, thx.
>Any idea when this fix will be implemented in an official kernel?
>More important; is this issue and imortant on or should i just ignore the error
>untill a new kernel with this fix is available?
I am using an Intel server with built-in RAID 1 capacity to run 2x400G NCQ SATA
The provided RHAS3.0U3 driver doesn't allow me to update to U6 kernel!!
Shoud I just ignore the error and wait for the intel update driver?
I am so worry about the both /var and /var/spool partitions which contain
important mails.
> I am using an Intel server with built-in RAID 1 capacity to run 2x400G NCQ SATA
> harddisk.
> The provided RHAS3.0U3 driver doesn't allow me to update to U6 kernel!!
> Shoud I just ignore the error and wait for the intel update driver?
This question is outside the scope of this bugzilla. Please work with
your support contact for resolution of that particular problem.
As I mentioned above in comment #34, the problem has to do with
improper up-by-one reference counts on the files and their containing
directories in /etc/audit/filesets.conf. But the contents of those files
should not be compromised by this bug.
U6 is still under development. (It has not yet been released.)
ok, so I just stop using audit daemon will be fine.
*** Bug 142960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
To test this issue, simply run the system with LAuS and cron enabled .
1. Ensure LAuS is enabled (it is not by default):
# chkconfig --level=2345 auditd on; chkconfig --level=016 auditd off
2. To speed things up, create a minute-ly cron job:
# echo '* * * * * /bin/date>/dev/null' > /var/spool/cron/root
3. # reboot
When the rebooted system has been up more than two minutes, audit log records
will have been generated by cron.
Now, to test:
# halt
system should shutdown cleanly with no messages like:
' Unmounting filesystems: umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /var: device is busy
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.
We run kernel-2.4.21-37.0.1.EL, and kernel-smp-2.4.21-37.0.1.EL with the
auditd turned off. We didn't see the error with stock U6 kernel, but now see
it again with the latest security fix kernel!
Re: comment #56
Could you please confirm that the bug persists even with the latest updates? Thanks.
The bug reported here has been fixed in RHEL3 U8 (kernel version 2.4.21-47.EL).
If you still encounter a problem with U8, please enter a new bugzilla report.


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