From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 11:44:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17765 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:44:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17759 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id LAA04354 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:43:56 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id LAA22972 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:43:55 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971127194350.007b5ce0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jcwells@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:43:50 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jason Wells Subject: umount panic and System V options Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have performed the "Mystery Fix" on my box. My problem is fixed but it is a mystery how I did it. If you have followed my recent troubles you may recall that my system was panicking during the execution of umount. I took a gander at my kernel config file. I noticed that one of the three system V options was missing. I had ommitted SYSVMSG. I did not think (guess) that this would matter. BUT... My umount problem has disappeared after I recompiled with SYSVMSG. Was this change in the kernel really responsible for the fix? My guess is no. Could anyone help take the mystery out of this fix? FWIW. I was under the impression after reading the "The Complete FreeBSD" that SYSVMSG was not mandatory. Ipcs reports no processes using SYSV options. Thanks, Jason "Houdini" Wells