Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:34:05 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu, wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu Subject: Re: Clean reboot on current Message-ID: <199604061004.TAA03574@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604051606.LAA21264@hopf.math.purdue.edu> from "Clarence Wilkerson" at Apr 5, 96 11:06:53 am
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Clarence Wilkerson stands accused of saying: > When I do a few syncs and a "reboot" command, I get a string of > numbers like > > 3 3 3 3 3 3 "giving up" The '3' indicates the number of disk buffers that are waiting to be written. Do you get the same result with 'shutdown -r now'? If not, then you probably have an application that's unhappy about being nuked. > Clarence Wilkerson -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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