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

[Rostislav Krasny]

--- 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?

There are following PATA devices in this box:
ad0: 14649MB <IBM-DTLA-307015/TX2OA5AA> [29765/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad1: 3098MB <ST33210A/1.70> [6296/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33
ad2: 14324MB <IBM-DTLA-307015/TX2DA5AA> [29104/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L/C100> at ata1-slave PIO4
And ACPI is disabled.

In a past ad2 was not physically installed, acd0 was different  and I ran
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (lower patchlevel) on ad1. I had experienced the same
shutdown problem with the same low periodicity. I believe it is not an HDD problem.


		
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