FreeBSD 5.3 fails to shutdown properly

[Subhro]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:23:52 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl at alzatex.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD fails to sync buffers on shutdown and gives up requiring and
> fsck on reboot everytime.  It first syncs vnodes which hit 0 after a
> short time, then while syncing buffers the count starts at 7 and stays
> there til it gives up trying to sync them.  When I first go into single
> user mode, then umount all fs by hand I can run reboot and it will
> shutdown properly.  Is there a way to increase the delay on shutdown or
> some other way to fix this problem?  I'm using a clean install of FreeBSD 5.3.

Could you tell us about the arrangement of drives on your busses? Also
what type of data conductor are you using?

Regards
S.

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