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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:01:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, wa1ter@myrealbox.com
Subject:   Re: Giving up on three buffers...
Message-ID:  <200302241601.h1OG1xWZ002963@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E5A3C9C.5020509@myrealbox.com>

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>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:39:08 -0800
>From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>

>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.

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