From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 19:38:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F4514A0A for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@207-229-150-232.d.enteract.com [207.229.150.232]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA36870 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:38:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <387D48B7.7E6CAA9C@nasby.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:38:31 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown problems FBSD 3.4-STABLE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I am having the exact same problems, except I'm not running softupdates, only vinum. The box is an Asus P2B-DS, dual PII-333s, Matrox G200, XFree86. The non-dying process I can live with. The big problems that I see is that shutdown/reboot/halt is very inconsistent in it's behavior. The 3 commands will do different things at different times (I mostly use shutdown, but I've seen the same problems with halt and reboot). 1) Box gets partway through killing processes then hangs 2) same as 1, with the addition of a continuous tone from the speaker 3) Same as 1, except that after I hit a few keys, I get the tone from the speaker I've seen this behavior on shutdown -r, shutdown now (drop to single user), reboot, and halt (maybe shutdown -h too, don't remember). This hardware was running 3.0-RELEASE for months without problems, so I rather doubt it's the hardware. I first noticed it when I started running vinum under 3.3-stable, and the problem continues. I just tried rm'ing /usr/src and /usr/obj and re-cvsupping, all to no avail. Any ideas? Greg, have you heard other cases of this? "O. Hartmann" wrote: > > Since I installed vinum with softupdates, I have several problems when shutting > down the server. Whenever I shut down the machine, init reports a non dying process > and tells me, that ps axl has been adviced. After a few seconds this process, which name I > never see, has obviously been killed and the system performs a normal shutdown or reboot. > But sometimes the las tmessage on the screen is that all disks has been sync'ed but nothing happens > further on. The system is stuck in this process and seems to be frozen. Only a reset or > powercycle can help, but then fsck reports some dirty partitions ... > > How can I find out what process won't dy? How to figure out what process causes the hanging > or freezing the system after shutdown? > > With regards, > > Gruss O. Hartmann > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de > > Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message