On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 08:00:31 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 04/13/2011 07:36 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 07:24:51 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > > In the crashes before, / went read-only because something blew the > > partition table away. /var was on /, so no logs. I had to > > re-install. 2 weeks later, same story, re-install something else but > > don't recall, might have been the fellow from Morgantown WV's > > version. It was at least 3 years back up the log now& no trace > > exists today. > > Wonder if it's a hardware/firmware issue rather than a software issue. > > >> Ah, you're having problems with the shutdown then. Does it do the > >> same thing when you shut down or reboot from single user mode? > > > > Dunno, haven't tested. > > What about a 'poweroff' from the command line? (as root, natch) > > >> Dittoes for me. The link above may be related but that was more for > >> libs and bins on /usr. Did these reboot issues just start happening > >> or have you had them since the machine build? > > > > I have had this problem with mdv, mint9, and now pclos, but only on > > this machine. The shutdown screen says: > > Turning off swap > > > > -f > > <-empty line feed > > > > cursor<-hung here forever. Tap hdwe reset to reboot from there. > > I'm making a SWAG there might be an issue with your swap partition, > rather than umounting /var. If the shutdown is hanging on the "Turning > off swap" it's probably not getting to the the umount on the /var > partition. Try creating a new swap partition if you have the space on > another disk and deleting the original swap partition. > > Mark
Because linux actively looks for swaps on all drives, and I generally match swap to memory in the individual swap, I have around 12Gb of swap on 3 drives available. And I can do swapoff -a; swapon -a with no problems except the swap on the drive I'll be moving this install to has been moved, and swapon -a claims it can't find the BLKID of the one on that drive, so I am down to 8Gb of swap at the moment. So its almost a shrug. :) Thanks Mark. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
