From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 08:46:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196F137B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiba.meibin.net (shiba.meibin.net [219.166.101.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2526943FE0 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:46:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lukek@meibin.net) Received: (qmail 96620 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2003 15:46:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MAGOME) (192.168.10.35) by shiba.meibin.net with SMTP; 13 Jun 2003 15:46:36 -0000 Message-ID: <002001c331c2$d35511d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME> From: "Luke Kearney" To: "Bill Moran" , "Rohit" References: <200306131011.47302.rohitvis@rogers.com><3EE9DCDB.20607@potentialtech.com> <200306131035.51185.rohitvis@rogers.com> <3EE9F138.4030200@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:45:33 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting takes too long. Why? (/ was not properly dismounted) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:46:55 -0000 could the shutdown binary be broken on your installations ? are you running the same release on all machines installed from the same media ? LukeK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" To: "Rohit" Cc: Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:43 AM Subject: Re: Booting takes too long. Why? (/ was not properly dismounted) > Rohit wrote: > > Here is the dmesg. However, I should tell you that this has been the case with > > all my FreeBSD boxes. I have two PC's running FreeBSD and a Compaq laptop > > running FreeBSd all have different types of harddrives. > > > > The main problem is that everytime I boot I get the message saying / was not > > dismounted properly and then it goes through and fixes all the drive block > > errors. (This is the case on all my computers) > > My mistake ... I misread your original post. > > > I shutdown using the shutdown -h now command > > or reboot using reboot now > > How big is your / partition? During the halt/reboot sequence, does it give any > errors? Are all the buffers flushed? > > I'm grasping at straws here ... Is there some daemon running that takes too long > to shutdown or doesn't shutdown cleanly, thus preventing the system from flushing > all its buffers and marking the fs clean? > > One thing to try: manually stop all processes that you can, then issue "sync" a > few times, then (when disk activity has stopped) issue reboot. See if / is still > dirty on reboot. > > Does fsck succeed during boot? Possibly boot into single-usr mode and issue > "fsck -y" until the filesystems are all marked clean, then try your standard > method of rebooting and see if the / partition is now clean. > > Many guesses here. Hopefully one of them will be helpful. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >