On Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:08:03 -0800 (PST),
Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com> wrote:
> I'm currently running from March 3 -current sources (I know, I'm a whole
> week behind!).  Everytime I run `shutdown -r now' the system hangs after
> "syncing disks...".

I've had the same symptom before, but now my kernel built from the
Mar. 8 source has no problem rebooting.

> I've done a shutdown without the -r, and then tried to unmount all file
> systems with `umount -a' and it complains that /var is busy and of course
> fails to unmount it.  I then re-mounted /usr and did an fstat and the
> only entry it showed for /var was the one that fstat had.

There was a vm change in the daily CVS update on Mar. 4, and this
problem may have something to do with the change.

Ken