From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 14:03:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA00856 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from online.magnus1.com (online.magnus1.com [204.97.15.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA00850 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:03:41 -0800 (PST) From: paulb@online1.magnus1.com Received: from online1.magnus1.com (online1.magnus1.com [204.97.15.10]) by online.magnus1.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA27959; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:04:48 GMT Received: (from paulb@localhost) by online1.magnus1.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id WAA00245; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:05:13 GMT Message-Id: <199604022205.WAA00245@online1.magnus1.com> Subject: Re: Other disks of Pioneer DRM-624X changer To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 17:05:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, broome@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu In-Reply-To: <315FE05B.1D79@uswest.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Apr 1, 96 07:55:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wrote > > I have another possibly related problem in that shutdown sometimes can't sync > > the disk. I see > > > > Syncing ... 1 1 1 1 1... 1 1 Giving up > > > > Then a reboot sees a dirty file system. > > I had this problem, and think I've got it worked around. For me > this was a symptom of processes refusing to die. Specifically, Apache > wouldn't die from halt or shutdown. So I wrote a turnoff script. All > it does is a killall http, sync and halt. > You're exactly right. httpd wouldn't go away. Thanks. (I still can't mount my other 5 cdroms though )-: > Paul T. Root E/Mail: ptroot@uswest.com > 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 > Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 > NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030 > Paul Broome broome@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu