Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:53:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Powering off the system/UPS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980207104848.6006A-100000@callisto.fortean.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980206210631.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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> If you dig into this mechanism, maybe you keep a scenario i see sometimes > but have never managed to document properly: > > AFTER the dpt is called from at_shutdown, the system tries to sync disks. > this synchronization obviously fails. I don't think I saw this during > normal shutdown, but if you shutdown from the debugger, it can happen. Could this be data written to the dump device as a result of the savectx/dumpsys calls from the RB_DUMP flag? - Bruce ======================================================================== || Bruce M. Walter || 107 Timber Hollow Court #335 || || Senior Network Consultant || Chapel Hill, NC 27514 || || Fortean Technologies, Inc. || Tel: 919-967-4766 || || Information Technology Consultants || Fax: 919-967-4395 || ======================================================================== || BSD Unix -- It's not just a job, it's a way of life! || ========================================================================
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