From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 27 18:41:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27865 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 18:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (0@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27720 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 18:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.8/8.6.10) id SAA06485; Wed, 27 May 1998 18:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdaaDdea; Wed May 27 18:39:51 1998 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.0/8.6.10) id SAA04134; Wed, 27 May 1998 18:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805280138.SAA04134@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdgp4115; Wed May 27 18:38:06 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: cy To: Kenneth Miller cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: improper shutdown In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 14:09:06 EDT." <19980526140906.30830@hcs.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:38:04 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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