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Date:      Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:53:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com>
To:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Subject:   Re: Powering off the system/UPS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980207104848.6006A-100000@callisto.fortean.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980206210631.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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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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