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Subject: Re: Reboot from X?
In-Reply-To: <33ACE35E.2962@barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "Jun 22, 97 11:33:34 am"
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 18:13:00 +0100 (BST)
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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.