Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:36:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: instability with 2.1.5 kernel (shutdown problems) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.961028093259.6967A-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <32747178.2677@barcode.co.il>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote: > Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > When shutting down my 2.1.5-RELEASE system, the kernel is failing > > with alarming regularity to flush all of the buffers. I frequently see > > about a dozen 4's and the a "giving up" message before the system > > reboots. When the systme comes up the root filesystem and sometimes > > others are not marked clean and must be fsck'ed. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > Yes! I never bothered to post to questions (or stable) about it as I seldom > shutdown my machines, but almost whenever I do, I can see this symptom. There > are other weird things with shutdown on 2.1.5: For example, shutting down from > an xterm (which used to work just fine) would hang up the machine instead of > switching back to the console vty0 before halting. > > > > > I have also seen a 'shutdown -h +0' go directly to rebooting. > > > > These problems did not appear until after upgrading from 2.1. I > > have not seen any wierdness with prior version. > > > > Bad hardware or a bug? > > I guess it's a bug of some sortrs, as I see the same behaviour on two machines > (though I only shut them down for kernel rebuilds and the such, which is not > very often). Ok, so it's a software and not a hardware problem. I too have seen lockups when shutting down from X. Could you send me a copy of your kernel config? I want to compare what devices you have compiled in. cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/
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