From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 12:07:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022E216A421 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:07:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markus@ing.umu.se) Received: from mail.ing.umu.se (mail.ing.umu.se [130.239.117.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C6E43D48 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:07:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markus@ing.umu.se) Received: from tyra.ing.umu.se (unknown [130.239.117.83]) by mail.ing.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0552D182F8 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 13:57:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:07:19 +0200 (CEST) From: markus@ing.umu.se X-X-Sender: markus@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: USB /root shutdown freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:07:23 -0000 I have 6.1-RELEASE installed on a disk in an external USB 2.0 disk chassis. It successfully boots a computer and becomes da0. However, it is not able to shutdown or reboot, as the system freezes before it shuts down. --- begin --- # shutdown -h now [...] System shutdown time has arrived Shutting down daemon processes:. Stopping cron. Shutting down local daemons:. Writing entropy file:. Terminated . May 22 13:54:48 allegra syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'syncer' to stop...done Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...8 4 4 2 2 0 0 done All buffers synced. Uptime: 40s --- end --- This is the point where system stops doing things and not responding to anything but five-secs-powerbutton. The system was installed by issuing 1. Regular FreeBSD install on internal ATA 2. fdisk, bsdlabel, mount USB-disk 3. dump | restore 4. Fix fstab The computer is a Dell Latitued D400 (the problem is reproducable on a number of other computers). The harddisk is a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB IDE. The chassis is Amitech something. I appreciate any ideas! - markus