On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 07:08:30AM -0700, Andy R wrote:
> Hello all. I have a problem that seems to be minor,
> but still a bit scary when it happens. 
> 
> Sometimes when I issue umount to my only msdos
> filesystem, my whole machine hangs for about 5 to 10
> seconds. That means no mouse movement, no returned
> pings... It's completely frozen. I hasn't ever stayed
> that way, it always comes out of it. And I can't
> consistently recreate it. 
> 
> Any ideas on what causes this? Should I be worried
> about it?

Does it read/write to hard disk while it's frozen ?
Also does it print some message after this ? They may show
up in dmesg.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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