Subject: Re: reboot hangs
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/28/2000 20:15:39
On Fri Apr 28 19:21:03 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:46:45AM +0200, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> > > We should *really* find the real bug for this !
> > > This doesn't help with my alpha where the busy vnodes are on the root
> > > filesystem.
> > 
> > The hangs at shutdown I am currently seeing (I think it used to
> > be something different) are caused by cache_purgevfs() spinning
> > over and over again.
> 
> Do you have softdep ?

Where I don't use softdep. The problem appeared before softdep went into
the tree.

> The problem I have (and I think Bernd's one is the same) is that the
> kernel fails to unmount the filesystems, but no hangs.

Correct. It says something about syncing the filesystem and prints
10-20 numbers and then gives up.

Bernd