Garbled shutdown message
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 28 04:48:28 PST 2007
Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
>
> my 8-CURRENT as of Dec 21 shows some strange behavior when shutting down
> (e.g. with the shutdown -h command). The last messages look like this
> (written down manually):
>
> [...]
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop... done
> a
> itSiynngc i(nmga xd is6k0s ,s evcnoonddess) rfeomra isnyisntge.m.pr1o1c ess `syncer' to stop... 11 7 4 6 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 done.
> All buffers synced.
>
> If you look at this closely you can find "Syncing (max 60 seconds) for
> system process" if you read about every other character. It's always the
> third of the three "Waiting" lines. Anyone else seeing this?
You have an SMP system and do not have the PRINTF_BUFR option or
whatever it is. Without it multiple CPUs have no synchronization
between printfs and will interleave.
Kris
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