From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 20 11:08:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28185 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28092 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fcurrent@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA01685; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:21:16 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:21:16 GMT Message-Id: <199606201321.NAA01685@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Sync failure at shutdown Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On the last two occasions I've halted the system, I've got a message from sync when it tries to write out the pages that looks like 17 12 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up and the root partition is dirty (obviously) when I reboot. This is with a kernel compiled just after the following VM commit:- 1.70 +1 -0 src/sys/conf/files 1.10 +3 -2 src/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs.h 1.7 +5 -1 src/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_subr.c 1.22 +3 -1 src/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_vnops.c (although I don't think this particular one is responsible). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk