From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 15:48: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.lr.net (ns1.lr.net [205.219.188.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4D41559E for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from waldroni@lr.net) Received: from camry ([209.187.113.162]) by ns1.lr.net (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with SMTP id AAA3631; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:47:52 -0400 Message-ID: <018b01bf5d57$5faa56c0$a271bbd1@camry> Reply-To: "Isaac Waldron" From: "Isaac Waldron" To: "Salvo Bartolotta" , References: <20000111.8533800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20000111.22211600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Re: Newbie has a lot of questions - APM, ASUS mainboard and Pentium III Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:47:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am afraid that John was somehow right. >I appear to have discovered a minor bug, which seems to have >"ethical" >connotations, so to speak. >If I boot just after a "shutdown -p now", I get a "WARNING: / >was not properly dismounted" error. I've been able to reproduce that "bug" as well. However, it happens on my machine randomly, but particularly after heavy-IO jobs, like rebuilding the world. Though it doesn't seem to cause any damage, it theoretically could. I wonder if it has anything to do with SoftUpdates, as I never saw this problem before. Of course, a simple fix would be to have the shutdown program sleep for 5 seconds after the disk sync is finished, as the problem may stem from the disk sync returning before it was sure that all the required data was written to the disk. I could be wrong, but I might try that out. BTW, I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE (20001210) on a Tyan S1573 motherboard with a Western Digital 6.4 GB ATA-33 hard drive. I'm not an expert on the nuances of direct hardware programming, but it seems like not all the sync/dismount data is being written. When I say "shutdown -h now", the machine works fine with no error on startup. Isaac Waldron waldroni@lr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message