Brian Stark wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have 1.4X installed and upon executing "shutdown -r" I sometimes see
> messages like the following:
> 
>   syncing disks... 8 8 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up
>   rebooting...
> 
> When the machine is rebooted a number of the file systems are not clean 
> and fsck is run automatically to clean them. This does not happen all the
> time, nor I have I seen this on NetBSD 1.4.2 
> 
> Most of the time the messages are like this:
> 
>   syncing disks... 3 2 done
>   rebooting...
> 
> Any idea what might be causing this, or what I can do to try and figure
> out the exact cause of this?

Do you have an mfs /tmp?  If so, try unmounting that first before you
reboot.  I beleive the exact cause isn't known at the moment.

Simon.