Syncer "giving up" on buffers

[Jan Srzednicki]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:53:48PM +0300, Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with kernels,  built the last couple of days, where
> during shutdown syncer is "giving up" on buffers.  During the next boot
> all filesystems are checked because of improper dismount.  Here follow
> the exact messages I get:
> 
>   Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped
>   Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
>   Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped
>   
>   syncing disks, buffers remaining... 8 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 
>   giving up on 6 buffers
>   Uptime: 41m20s
>   pfs_vncache_unload(): 1 entries remaining
>   Shutting down ACPI
>   Rebooting...
> 
> After some testing I found out that this does _not_ happen if I manually
> unmount my ext2 filesystems, before shutting down.  In this case syncer
> finishes without any problems.

I confirm that, same thing happened in my case. But, I had just one
buffer remaining and ext2fs mounted in read-only. It seems that it's not
so read-only then..

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