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To: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond)
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Subject: Re: Halt 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 95 10:52:42 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 02:23:21 -0800
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>When shutting down the FreeBSD-machine I get:
>*** syncing disks... done
>***
>*** The operating system has halted.
>*** Please press any key to reboot.
>
>But... sometimes after syncing disks... I get three numbers. What do these mean?
>
>But.. more serious.. sometimes the system hangs just after the messages:
>*** host halt: halted by root (3 times)
>*** host: syslogd: exiting on signal 15 (also 3 times)
>
>I do not get the message about syncing disks. When I turn the power off and 
>on the filesystems are clean, so the shutting down is performed (isn't it?). 
>But does someone know why the system hangs (sometimes).

   Older versions of 2.x didn't switch console VT's to ttyv0 so you wouldn't
see the messages printed by the kernel. Could this be it?

-DG