On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:19:00PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:10:35AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: > > > >> not always be clean. Softupdates (hopefully) means that it will be > > > >> consistent and recoverable, but what you're seeing here is normal and > > > > Why "hopefully"? Aren't people convinced that it works correctly? > > > > > > i am convinced, but some of the hosts seem not to be :-) > > > > > > i see shutdowns which 0 0 0 0 and then shut, and when restarted > > > single user and fscked manually show errors. though i think this > > > may be in current, which is on most of my hosts. > > > > Yeah, others have reported this problem on -current, but 5.x does not > > have it. > > Actually, I have seen a similar problem on 5.x WRT OpenOffice ... > 0. OpenOffice hangs and cant' be killed > 1. Reboot system > 2. System claims all buffers flushed, then just hangs > 3. After hardbooting, filesystems need fscked > > I noticed others with similar complaints about OpenOffice, so I haven't > said much. The problem also happens pretty rarely, and I don't have any > idea how to reproduce it on demand.
What's needed to move forward on this is for someone to break to DDB when this happens and obtain a trace of the blocked process (and preferably a crashdump). See the developers' handbook for more information. Kris
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