From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 09:06:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA20008 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:06:31 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA20002 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:06:24 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22965; Sun, 12 Mar 95 18:05:33 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (SAA12986); Sun, 12 Mar 1995 18:07:28 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199503121707.SAA12986@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Halt To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 18:07:28 +0059 (MET) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jg@euronet.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Howard Lew" at Mar 10, 95 11:48:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 979 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Here is a related question: > > Is the situation below normal: > > In X11R6 if I logon to console, open a few xterms, su to root, and enter the > reboot command, the system reboots, but comes back up saying that the system > was improperly dismounted. > > However, if I logged out of X11R6 (so I see the login screen with the > console), and then switched to VT1, logged in as root, and then enter the > reboot command, the system reboots fine with no message about the system > being improperly dismounted. Yes, expected behaviour :-). The running X-server and the xterms most likely blocks the unmount of the /usr filesystem. So the system can't shutdown cleanly. If you exit from X and login as superuser the unmount's of the filesystems suceeds and all is well. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe