Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:19:07 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dg@root.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dpsmith@xoom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote power cycle Message-ID: <199801081019.VAA04517@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>However, for now, even when the serial console is still running, but the >machine is mostly dead, I can never get reboot to work... It tells me some >processess would not die, ps axl advised - then it locks up. > >I've even tried reboot -q or reboot -n and got nowhere. Is there a better >way of recovering for this? Kill the offending processes before rebooting, or unmount nfs file systems before rebooting. The hang seems to be caused by bugs in nfs. I use: sync umount -Af -t nfs reboot Bruce
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