background_fsck=no does not work?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:19:00PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:10:35AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > >> not always be clean.  Softupdates (hopefully) means that it will be
> > > >> consistent and recoverable, but what you're seeing here is normal and
> > > > Why "hopefully"?  Aren't people convinced that it works correctly?
> > > 
> > > i am convinced, but some of the hosts seem not to be :-)
> > > 
> > > i see shutdowns which 0 0 0 0 and then shut, and when restarted
> > > single user and fscked manually show errors.  though i think this
> > > may be in current, which is on most of my hosts.
> > 
> > Yeah, others have reported this problem on -current, but 5.x does not
> > have it.
> 
> Actually, I have seen a similar problem on 5.x WRT OpenOffice ...
> 0. OpenOffice hangs and cant' be killed
> 1. Reboot system
> 2. System claims all buffers flushed, then just hangs
> 3. After hardbooting, filesystems need fscked
> 
> I noticed others with similar complaints about OpenOffice, so I haven't
> said much.  The problem also happens pretty rarely, and I don't have any
> idea how to reproduce it on demand.

What's needed to move forward on this is for someone to break to DDB
when this happens and obtain a trace of the blocked process (and
preferably a crashdump).  See the developers' handbook for more
information.

Kris
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