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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Subject: conf/37370: Serial drainwait shouldn't be zero (forever) by default
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>Number:         37370
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Serial drainwait shouldn't be zero (forever) by default
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 23 01:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Daniel O'Connor
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD chowder.gsoft.com.au 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 27 20:47:35 CST 2002 darius@chowder
.dons.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHOWDER i386


>Description:
With the default it seems very easy to get a process stuck forever (say connected to a UPS)

>How-To-Repeat:
Not really sure but I have 2 stuck apcsmart processes on machines I would rather not reboot.

>Fix:

Apply http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/sensible-drainwait.diff
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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