Shutdown anomaly

[Steven Friedrich]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 03:37:29 pm Brent Jones wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tore Lund
> > Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2008 9:32 a.m.
> > To: Steven Friedrich; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Shutdown anomaly
> >
> > Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > >  iStyinncgi n(gm adxi s6k0s ,s evcnoonddess)  rfeomra
> >
> > isnyisntge.m. .pr0o
> >
> > > cess 'syncer' to stop...0 0 done
> > > All buffers synced.
> > > Uptime: 8m9s
> >
> > I don't know if this is relevant.  Anyway, I used to see this error on
> > 7.0-RC1, at any rate when using xdm.  I no longer see it on 7.0-RC2.
>
> I see it on my RC2 machine.  It comes and goes on my machine, and isn't
> always present on shutdown.  Not running xdm, just a plain vanilla box
> with no X.

The previously suggested kernel config option PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 appears 
to "work around" the issue on my machine, an HP zd8215us.  I'm running 
7.0-RC3 (no, really, that's what it sez), built Wed Feb 20.

I could RELIABLY reproduce it with single-user mode, mergemaster -p, make 
installworld, mergemaster, halt, before I added the kernel option.

I'm not using xdm.  I do use kdm, but it's the FIRST thing I turn off before 
troubleshooting.