Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 18:13:00 +0100 (BST) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Cc: justin@structured.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reboot from X? Message-ID: <19319.199706221713@gudgeon.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <33ACE35E.2962@barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "Jun 22, 97 11:33:34 am"
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> Justin Ashworth wrote: > > > > Is it a bad thing to reboot my system while in X-Windows? > > Normally this shouldn't be a problem (assuming of course you use > shutdown or halt, and not just brutaly shut the computer off). There are > reports of problems shutting down (especially 2.1.x systems) when X is > running and /tmp is on a MFS file system. The symptoms being that the > disk buffers do not get flushed (at the console you'll see something > like: 4 4 4 .... 4 giving up). If you don't get the "giving up" message, > then all should be well. > I've seen this (on 2.1.0) even when X isn't running - although with an MFS /tmp. Whether X is running or not, it happens very rarely, and I think it may be happening when the root FS is changed.
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