From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 24 8: 2: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0794137B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:02:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A2643FB1 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:02:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1OG1xKG002964; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@bunrab.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1OG1xWZ002963; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:01:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:01:59 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200302241601.h1OG1xWZ002963@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, wa1ter@myrealbox.com Subject: Re: Giving up on three buffers... In-Reply-To: <3E5A3C9C.5020509@myrealbox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:39:08 -0800 >From: walt >After this morning's cvsup I now get a 'syncing disks...giving up >on three buffers' error message when shutting down the system and >the filesystem doesn't get properly dismounted. >For the last four days I could never shut the system down cleanly >because of the nVidia driver problem causing a kernel panic >when X got shut down, so I'm not sure if this problem really >just started this morning or somethime in the past four days. >Anyone else seeing this just today? My build machine runs headless, so there may well be a salient difference there, but today's -CURRENT build & reboot went just fine. Tail end of the console log (cut'n'paste) reads: Starting cron. Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. Mon Feb 24 07:58:04 PST 2003 FreeBSD/i386 (freebeast.catwhisker.org) (cuaa0) login: [0] f:00 typ:165 s(CHS):0/1/1 e(CHS):4/254/127 s:63 l:4192902 [1] f:00 typ:165 s(CHS):5/0/65 e(CHS):9/254/191 s:4192965 l:4192965 [2] f:00 typ:165 s(CHS):10/0/129 e(CHS):14/254/255 s:8385930 l:4192965 [3] f:80 typ:165 s(CHS):15/0/193 e(CHS):255/254/255 s:12578895 l:67697910 GEOM: Reconfigure ad0s1, start 32256 length 2146765824 end 2146798079 GEOM: Reconfigure ad0s2, start 2146798080 length 2146798080 end 4293596159 GEOM: Reconfigure ad0s3, start 4293596160 length 2146798080 end 6440394239 GEOM: Reconfigure ad0s4, start 6440394240 length 34661329920 end 41101724159 Fboot() called on cpu#0 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped syncing disks, buffers remaining... 2 2 done Uptime: 1m17s Power system off using ACPI... (And it actually did power off; this was in response to sudo boot0cfg -s 1 ad0 && sudo halt -p || sudo reboot in case that's of interest or amusement.) Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org WARNING: Use of Microsoft products may be hazardous to your system's integrity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message