Kenneth Stailey (kstailey@eagle.dol-esa.gov) wrote:
: It seems that roughly half the time "shutdown -r now" will hang on
: "Syncing disks..." with the sync operation complete.  The kernel
: debugger shows that it's trapped within the bowels of vfs_umountall.
: I have seen this behavior for months now, probably when the earliest
: versions of vfs_umountall were beginning to take shape.
: 
: I have never seen the system hang if you use "reboot" instead of
: "shutdown -r now".
: 
: This happens to me a two fairly different PCs.
: 
: Do other people see both of these behaviors?

I saw this a few times on NetBSD-Amiga as of 95may20 with a few later patches, and
even with cp /netbsd /dev/reload (which does syncing/unmounting of the disks,
loading of the new kernel, and jumping to it, without going through AmigaOS)

	Ignatios Souvatzis