Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 20:18:57 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Powering off the system/UPS Message-ID: <XFMail.980207201857.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980207104848.6006A-100000@callisto.fortean.com>
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On 07-Feb-98 Bruce M. Walter wrote: >> 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? Possible. I think the anomaly is always associated with either a debugger session, or a panic, or both. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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