Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 18:07:28 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jg@euronet.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Halt Message-ID: <199503121707.SAA12986@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950310114245.21371C-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> from "Howard Lew" at Mar 10, 95 11:48:59 am
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> 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
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