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> 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? 

- Bruce

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