From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 14:18:41 2004 Return-Path: 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 0B0F916A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:18:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from biggie.spekt.net (biggie.spekt.net [67.18.79.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D076B43D39 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:18:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from radek@raadradd.com) Received: from raadradd.homeunix.org (bxa214.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.29.250.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by biggie.spekt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF5A401C; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:18:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by raadradd.homeunix.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DFB83A557; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:18:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:18:32 +0200 From: Radek Kozlowski To: Oliver Fuchs Message-ID: <20041012141832.GA44106@werd> References: <20041012091741.GA709@bob.bob.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041012091741.GA709@bob.bob.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext2fs cannot be umounted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:18:41 -0000 On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:17:41AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > Hi, > I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and have compiled my kernel with optinion: > options EXT2FS > > In my /etc/fstab I have added: > /dev/ad0s6 /mnt/debian ext2fs rw 0 0 > > to mount my debian box. > > everything works fine except one thing: > Shutting down via shutdown -p now ends up in the message: > > syncing discs, buffer remaining 403938383838383838383 > .....giving up on 38 > > This means that FreeBSD is not able to umount/sync the mounted partition > clearly. > I have tried in /etc/fstab also the sync option but it ends up with the > "syncing discs giving up" error message. > Only if I umount the ext2fs partition gives me a clean shutdown. > > What can be done or how can I force the system to umount ext2fs partition > before shutting down? It's a known bug: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/56675 There's a workaround suggested in this thread, which you already seem to know: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-August/035316.html -Radek