From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 26 10:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08104 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from keaggy.canonware.com (canonware.com [206.184.206.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08078 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: from localhost (jasone@localhost) by keaggy.canonware.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA21518; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:16:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Evans To: Mike Smith cc: Kenneth Miller , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: improper shutdown In-Reply-To: <199805260657.XAA00702@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Kenneth Miller probably wrote: > > > > I've had a minor (?) but irritating problem ever since moving to stable > > from 2.2.5. When I reboot, the disks don't have their clean flags set > > and need fscking. If I shutdown to singer user mode and manually > > unmount the disks, and remount / readonly, it's fine. But using the > > shutdown program to go all the way doesn't work. I will assume this is > > some misconfiguration on my part, but I was a little perplexed that it > > began only when I moved to stable. I've been seeing this recently too. The first kernel I can guarantee had the problem was one built on April 25th. I too have updated my fstab as was required (to move away from the compatibility slice, right?). My /etc/fstab: ======================================================================== # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/wd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s2f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd0s2e /var ufs rw 2 2 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/sd0s1 /syjet ufs rw,noauto 0 0 keaggy:/usr/home /usr/home nfs rw 0 0 keaggy:/space /space nfs rw 0 0 keaggy:/var/mail /var/mail nfs rw 0 0 keaggy:/usr /keaggy_usr nfs rw 0 0 ======================================================================== I built a new kernel yesterday (as well as doing a 'make world'), and when I rebooted to use the new kernel, I saw something like: Syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Giving up. The machine is a P5-166, 128 MB RAM, Seagate 2.1GB(?) EIDE HDD, 2940UW with a Syjet drive (no cartridge in it at shutdown), 3COM 3C509B ethernet. Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Web: [http://www.canonware.com/~jasone] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message