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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:14:05 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>,  current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /c: unmount pending error: blocks -68512 files 0
Message-ID:  <43DAC55D.7010704@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060128005304.GA70164@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060128000909.GA69458@xor.obsecurity.org> <43DABFCA.5030509@mac.com> <20060128005304.GA70164@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:50:18PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> /c: unmount pending error: blocks -68512 files 0   
>>>
>>> This warning has been popping up sporadically on my systems at reboot
>>> time since FreeBSD 5.3..what causes it?
>> Did you have any processes stuck in an uninterruptable condition when you
>> unmounted the filesystem?  The message is from:
> 
> Perhaps, but none that I noticed this time.  I do encounter that
> sometimes though.

Another BSD system used to dump you to single-user mode when something like this
happened and say """Something is stuck, "ps -axl" advised."""

If you wanted to, I guess you could set a breakpoint for the debugger or have it
panic if and when that message is triggered, and poke around from there.

If you were trying to _avoid_ having that message appear, I'd consider forcing
an fsck of the filesystem when it's not mounted, or toggle whether softupdates
is (are?) being used....

-- 
-Chuck



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