From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 30 04:30:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03894 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 04:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colin.muc.de (root@colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA03874 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 04:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lutz@muc.de) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <140573-2>; Sat, 30 May 1998 12:45:47 +0200 Received: from muc.de (abraxas [192.168.42.5]) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29145; Sat, 30 May 1998 11:32:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <356FD21A.B3B551E0@muc.de> Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:32:10 +0200 From: Lutz Albers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aw1@stade.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: improper shutdown References: <199805260657.XAA00702@antipodes.cdrom.com> <19980528043812.A5133@stade.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adrian Wontroba wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:16:34AM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > > > keaggy:/usr/home /usr/home nfs rw 0 0 > > > when I rebooted to use the new kernel, I saw something like: > > Syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Giving up. > > I seem to recall something like this. The symptoms went away if I > unmounted the nfs mounts before closing down. Just exit all programs/shell which are cwd'd to a nfs-mounted directory. At least thats what I do. This 'feature' has been introduced somewhere between 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 :-( ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message