From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 01:38:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA17914 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:38:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA17908 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:38:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA03574; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:34:05 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604061004.TAA03574@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Clean reboot on current To: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:34:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu, wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu In-Reply-To: <199604051606.LAA21264@hopf.math.purdue.edu> from "Clarence Wilkerson" at Apr 5, 96 11:06:53 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[