Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:38:04 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Kenneth Miller <kemiller@hcs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: improper shutdown Message-ID: <199805280138.SAA04134@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 14:09:06 EDT." <19980526140906.30830@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've had this problem on one of my FreeBSD systems at home, a small system I use as an X Terminal. It doesn't always occur, about once every 5-10 shutdowns. The problem's been there since 2.2.5. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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