Re: syncing disks...

[Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> Matthew Dillon writes:

 > :Hi,
 > :
 > :I just installed DragonFly on a free slice and now after a new
 > :world/kernel I get this error when rebooting:
 > :
 > :  dfly# reboot
 > :  Jboot() called on cpu#0
 > :  Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread vnlru to stop...stopped
 > :  Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread bufdaemon to stop...stopped
 > :  Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread syncer to stop...stopped
 > :
 > :  syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 
 > :  giving up on 3 buffers
 > :  Uptime: 1m54s
 > :
 > :Any idea? This is a SMP system.

 >     I expect issues like this are going to come up occassionally.  I do
 >     not think they are serious (yet), but it should be possible to 
 >     ctl-alt-esc into DDB and get a crash dump and then track down why
 >     the buffer cannot be flushed.

Using ctl-alt-esc is not possible here as I only have a serial
console. I could add a panic() call in kern_shutdown.c however.

 >     Usually such buffers are related to a CD, MFS, or NFS mount.  I
 >     do not know if that is the case here.

No. only ufs mounts.

Jean-Marc

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