From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 13:27:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05695 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05660 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ab18857; 1 Jul 96 20:27 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa13415; 1 Jul 96 19:01 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00915; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:07:03 GMT Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:07:03 GMT Message-Id: <199607011407.OAA00915@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jbrann@panix.com CC: JSINNOTT@pomona.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607010241.WAA09983@jbrann.dialup.access.net> (message from John Brann on Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:41:47 -2800 (EDT)) Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is this sequence of numbers (the number of blocks that still need to be flushed) > > - is this sequence SUPPOSED to countdown - for instance - my machine says > > something like syncing disks... 6 6 6 6 6 > > then it shuts down. > > Normally, it does. I have seen repeated digits, like this. If your > system is happy when it reboots, then there wasn't a problem. Hmm. A couple of weeks ago, I started getting messages like syncing disks... 8 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3, giving up and assumed it was a bug in the VM code (I had -current on this disk). Two days later the disk died in a flurry of medium errors. 8-( Obviously it had started developing bad sectors and the first one happened to be in the swap partition. So if you ever see this message, start backing up immediately! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/