sometimes 5.3-RELEASE-p5 is stuck at the last steps of shutdown

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Thursday, 27. January 2005 10:04, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> --- Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > > Hello all.
> > >
> > > I use FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 on i386. Sometimes my system is stuck at
> >
> > the
> >
> > > last steps of shutdown. Following quoting is what I saw yesterday when
> >
> > my
> >
> > > system was stuck again (the last lines):
> > >
> > > init: some processes would not die; ps axl advised
> >
> > You should try to find out what's causing that. I personally got this a
> > few
> > times, too, when a mount command got badly stuck because trouble with the
> > hdd.
>
> I don't know how could I find, during the shutdown, what are those
> unkillable processes. I didn't find anything suspicious in
> /var/log/messages. Could init(8) be configured/patched to print/log a list
> of such unkillable processes during the shutdown?

Probably, but doing shutdown now (i.e., going into single user) instead of an 
actual power-down might also work.

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