On 7/9/08, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On two machines now, recent snapshots are not powering off properly on > machines which used to, when I run shutdown -p -h now. > > It stops at syncing disks, and stays there forever. After a hard reset, / > comes up as not being unmounted successfully. > > I am a quite busy right now, but if someone could tell me what src files > deal with this area, So I can perhaps back track to a time when shutdowns > worked ok after work.
One thing to rule out would be the buffer cache changes. These were committed over a little time, but you could check a kernel from june 9th (before) and june 15th (after). of course, that's the week of the hackathon, so lots of other changes occurred as well. but try those dates.
