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Date:      Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:24:25 -0500
From:      Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sporadic disk syncing failures when shutting down
Message-ID:  <20030713032425.GA77413@edgemaster.zombie.org>
In-Reply-To: <200307130136.h6D1arM7023826@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <200307130136.h6D1arM7023826@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:36:53PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
...
>  Stopping inetd.
> Shutting down daemon processes:Jul 12 09:19:40 scratch upsmon[492]: upsmon parent: exiting (child exited)
> killall: warning: kill -TERM 492: No such process
> killall: warning: kill -TERM 488: No such process
>  healt Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped
> 
> syncing disks, buffers remaining... 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 
> giving up on 54 buffers
> Uptime: 6m42s
> Terminate ACPI
> Rebooting...
> 
> Each time this has happened, fsck finds and nukes a bunch of empty
> directories.  The last time this happened, the /etc/rc.d/yp* files that
> mergmaster updated were missing after the reboot and fsck had done its
> work.  Nothing has ever shown up in lost+found.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?

I have seen this a lot, but not as much lately. Sadly, I don't have any
more data than you on why it happens. I've seen it give up on a rather
frighteningly large number of buffers before, though...

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