NetBSD Problem Report #2062

From gnats  Sat Feb 10 20:23:12 1996
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 20:08:38 -0500 (EST)
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
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Subject: reboot or halt not happening 'sometimes'
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>Number:         2062
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       reboot or halt stalls unmounting some disks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 10 20:35:04 +0000 1996
>Closed-Date:    Fri Sep 26 06:49:30 +0000 1997
>Last-Modified:  Fri Sep 26 07:00:37 +0000 1997
>Originator:     David Gilbert
>Release:        1.1
>Organization:
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>Environment:

System: NetBSD repeat 1.1A NetBSD 1.1A (REPEAT) #37: Fri Feb 9 23:31:14 EST 1996 root@:/u/dgilbert/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/REPEAT sparc


>Description:
	It seems to me that the system has to be up for a day or so
for this to take effect, but the symtom is that reboot or halt will
not reboot or halt.  Several times, I have tried taking it to single
user mode, and then unmounting the disks.  Unmounting my news spool
hung the system there.

	Now when I come back up out of either one of these problems, I
find that there are never any problems --- so the sync is working
(doesn't complain at all abou the disks in fsck), but the actual
unmount (setting the clean bit?) never happens.

	Note that if the machine is up a few hours it will normally
reboot.  I'm wondering if this may be something that expire does to
the disk, but I have no hard data.  I think that I have dump
technology finally mastered if a kernel dump might help you (how do I
trigger one is a good question).
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
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Date:    Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:38:07 -0700
From:    "Erik E. Fair" (Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>
Sender:  fair@cesium.clock.org
Subject: NetBSD Problem Report #2062
To:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>

David,

A little over a year ago, you reported a problem with the reboot(8)
command hanging because some disks would not unmount. You reported
the problem as being with NetBSD 1.1 - have you upgraded since,
and if so, does the problem still occurr?

	Erik E. Fair	fair@clock.org


Date:    Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:53:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:    David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
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Subject: NetBSD Problem Report #2062
To:      "Erik E. Fair" (Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>
Replied: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:01:07 -0700
Replied: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
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"Erik" == Erik E Fair <(Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>> writes:

Erik> David, A little over a year ago, you reported a problem with the
Erik> reboot(8) command hanging because some disks would not
Erik> unmount. You reported the problem as being with NetBSD 1.1 -
Erik> have you upgraded since, and if so, does the problem still
Erik> occurr?

	Sadly, while I still run NetBSD on my Sun 4/260 and my Sun
3/260, I have converted by intel box to FreeBSD.  This was basically
required for serial performance.  Also... I have long since abandoned
the 386 motherboard that I used then --- although if someone wants to
dick around with it (I'm pretty sure it was a function of the
motherboard), I'd be happy to let them.

Dave.

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|Mail:       dgilbert@velocet.net             |  equal if and only if they |
|http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert             |   are precisely opposite.  |
=========================================================GLO================



Date:    Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:01:06 -0700
From:    "Erik E. Fair" (Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD Problem Report #2062 
To:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
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Um, that bug was reported in "port-sparc"...

	Erik E. Fair	fair@clock.org



Date:    Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:47:43 -0400 (EDT)
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"Erik" == Erik E Fair <(Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>> writes:

Erik> Um, that bug was reported in "port-sparc"...  Erik E. Fair
Erik> fair@clock.org

	In that case... it has largely dissappeared.  I havn't had a
problem with 1.2.1 lately...

Dave.

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============================================================================
|David Gilbert, Velocet Communications.       | Two things can only be     |
|Mail:       dgilbert@velocet.net             |  equal if and only if they |
|http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert             |   are precisely opposite.  |
=========================================================GLO================

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: fair 
State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 25 23:49:30 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
problem has been fixed in a subsequent release of NetBSD. 
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