From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 22 01:35:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA22218 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 01:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA22213 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 01:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA29371; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 11:35:11 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma029363; Sun Jun 22 11:34:42 1997 Message-ID: <33ACE35E.2962@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 11:33:34 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: justin@structured.net CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot from X? References: <33AC78C8.BC1179A5@spacehog.structured.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Justin Ashworth wrote: > > Is it a bad thing to reboot my system while in X-Windows? Normally this shouldn't be a problem (assuming of course you use shutdown or halt, and not just brutaly shut the computer off). There are reports of problems shutting down (especially 2.1.x systems) when X is running and /tmp is on a MFS file system. The symptoms being that the disk buffers do not get flushed (at the console you'll see something like: 4 4 4 .... 4 giving up). If you don't get the "giving up" message, then all should be well. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Justin Ashworth, Intern Structured Network Systems > justin@structured.net http://www.structured.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?" > Bernie: "Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO > inconsiderate." > -- Gary Trudeau, "Doonesbury" Nadav