On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:25:40AM -0600, Trevin Beattie wrote:
> At 11:29 am 9/20/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >Maybe the filesystem is hung then ? Do you have NFS on this machine ?
> >Does the HD activity led behave properly ?
> 
> I have NFS configured and the server side installed, but I usually don't
> have any remote filesystems mounted (neither imported nor exported).
> 
> The hard drive appears to be working normally; there is disk activity when
> I shut down X, and I'll wait another 30 seconds for update(8) to synch the
> disk (I will occasionally see the drive LED blink when it does this).

So maybe some part of the VFS is hung (some kind od deadlock).
DOes X exit properly and give you a working text mode back ?
If so maybe it's possible to get some more infos with the debugger ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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