On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Greg Oster wrote:

> Manuel Bouyer writes:
> > Hi again,
> > so I have this alpha set up with root on raid0. After a multiuser boot,
> > a shutdown will give:
> > ds20\:/root\#halt
> > Apr  6 18:17:31 ds20 halt: halted by root
> > Apr  6 18:17:31 ds20 halt: halted by root
> > Apr  6 18:17:31 ds20 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> > Apr  6 18:17:31 ds20 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> > syncing disks... 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up
> > halted.
> > 
> > Any idea ?
> 
> Do you have /tmp on mfs?  I get the same thing on a -current box w/ /tmp on 
> a mfs, but I *don't* get that on a -current box that doesn't have /tmp on 
> mfs... (and both systems have root on RAID..)

  I have also experienced this on a VAX 4000/VLC running diskless.  The
entries holding things up in this case are on the NFS-mounted root.

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