From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 11:49:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA23145 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:49:15 -0800 Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (2842@vegemite.Stanford.EDU [36.159.0.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA23138 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:49:13 -0800 Received: (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.4) id LAA21390; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:49:02 -0800 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:48:59 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Garrett Wollman cc: Jan_Guldemond , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Halt In-Reply-To: <9503092005.AA12531@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Mar 1995, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < > > Hi, > > When shutting down the FreeBSD-machine I get: > > *** syncing disks... done > > *** > > *** The operating system has halted. > > *** Please press any key to reboot. > > > But... sometimes after syncing disks... I get three numbers. What do > > these mean? > > It's telling you how many unsaved buffers are left after each sync(), > so you know how much progress has been made. > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. > Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people > MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant > 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.