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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 14:09:06 -0400
From:      Kenneth Miller <kemiller@hcs.harvard.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: improper shutdown
Message-ID:  <19980526140906.30830@hcs.harvard.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980525233116.10709@hcs.harvard.edu>; from Kenneth Miller on Mon, May 25, 1998 at 11:31:16PM -0400
References:  <19980525233116.10709@hcs.harvard.edu>

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On Monday, 05/25/98 at 11:31:16 PM, Kenneth Miller 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.  
> 
> Any suggestions or answers appreciated.

OK.  After a little more poking, it became apparent that what was
happening was that certain filesystems were still busy, causing the
reboot syscall to give up and halt without unmounting the filesystems.
Why, then, would they be busy?  All other processes should have been
terminated, and no error message appeared indicating anything else.  

I also noticed that nothing is done with the RB_POWEROFF flag, even
though APM support has been in there for a while.  Any particular reason
that anyone knows of?


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