On shutdown "can't open /proc/partitions"

[geneSmith]

Finally got upgraded to xorg after ungrading/installing 312 packages. 
However, now have one additonal problem. Each time the system shuts down 
and tries to unmount / fs, I see a one line message "Could not open 
/proc/partitions" plus something about UID and LABEL.   Then when I 
restart, it always does a lengthy check on my ext2 root fs and does not 
find anything wrong. Then I have to boot again and all is fine, until I 
shutdown again. I have not yet checked the state of the file 
/proc/partitions during run time. Any idea what could cause this problem.

Actually, I first noticed it during the upgrade when I tried to restart 
xfs and the system locked/crashed (at which point I had not yet run 
ldconfig like I should have) and I had to press reset.

Tks,
-gene