Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-26 Thread Han Boetes
Chris Cappuccio wrote: You have both IDE disks on the same IDE channel which is problematic. Set both IDE disks to 'master' and put them on separate IDE channels. Cheers, what a difference! Not a bug, eey? OpenBSD 4.1-current (GENERIC) #5: Sun Apr 22 01:44:59 MDT 2007 [EMAIL

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: You have both IDE disks on the same IDE channel which is problematic. Set both IDE disks to 'master' and put them on separate IDE channels. Cheers, what a difference! Not a bug, eey? Not a software bug, anyways...As Art

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-26 Thread Han Boetes
Chris Cappuccio wrote: Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: You have both IDE disks on the same IDE channel which is problematic. Set both IDE disks to 'master' and put them on separate IDE channels. Cheers, what a difference! Not a bug, eey? Not a

shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Han Boetes
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Han Boetes wrote: Of course I crash, I crash at every reboot, I got the problem where the rebooting proces gets stuck at `syncing disks' after which I have to m-c-ESC and then boot sync. I have this on a i386 and I met someone on #openbsd who

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Alf Schlichting
I had this problem too and seems like it is fixed in the latest snapshot. Synopsis: sync(8) hangs on reboots State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: pedro State-Changed-When: Fri Apr 20 02:56:01 MDT 2007 State-Changed-Why: Very likely fixed in revision 1.21 of vfs_cache.c, thanks

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Pedro Martelletto
If you can still reproduce the problem with the latest snapshot, please break into ddb, use 'ps' to see the PID of the 'reboot' process, and get us the output of 'tr /p 0tPID'. -p.

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Han Boetes
Artur Grabowski wrote: You are asking for a software soultion to a hardware problem. The system is desperately trying to write out blocks to your busted disk and, yes, it's taking a lot of time because it's patiently retrying and retrying and retrying. How very surprising. You might want

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:42:01 +0200 Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are dealing with a hardware problem. Suspect both the disc and/or the controller. Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Han Boetes wrote: Of course I crash, I crash at every reboot, I got the problem where

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Rico Secada 23-Apr-07 18:23 On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:42:01 +0200 Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are dealing with a hardware problem. Suspect both the disc and/or the controller. C'mon: let's put Han out of his (our?) misery. (And mainly for the archives...) Quite possibly this is

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* Han Boetes wrote: Artur Grabowski wrote: You are asking for a software soultion to a hardware problem. The system is desperately trying to write out blocks to your busted disk and, yes, it's taking a lot of time because it's patiently retrying and retrying and retrying. How very

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Artur Grabowski
Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Artur Grabowski wrote: You are asking for a software soultion to a hardware problem. The system is desperately trying to write out blocks to your busted disk and, yes, it's taking a lot of time because it's patiently retrying and retrying and

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Han Boetes
Artur Grabowski wrote: Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read my logs, I posted this before, I politely asked. I didn't get an answer. Next time I'll remember I first have to piss you off before I get an answer. You're welcome. No no no, the pleasure is all mine. :-) # Han

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Han Boetes
Pedro Martelletto wrote: If you can still reproduce the problem with the latest snapshot, please break into ddb, use 'ps' to see the PID of the 'reboot' process, and get us the output of 'tr /p 0tPID '. Here it is, I took a photo so the transscript may contain errors. ddb tr /p 0t1847

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Han Boetes
Marc Balmer wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: Next time I'll remember I first have to piss you off before I get an answer. no han, you don't get it right. It's turn your brain on, then activate your mouth. Not the other way round... ;) Hmmm, initially I would agree with you. I mean I tried

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* Han Boetes wrote: Artur Grabowski wrote: Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read my logs, I posted this before, I politely asked. I didn't get an answer. Next time I'll remember I first have to piss you off before I get an answer. You're welcome. No no no, the

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Han Boetes
Marc Balmer wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: Artur Grabowski wrote: Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read my logs, I posted this before, I politely asked. I didn't get an answer. Next time I'll remember I first have to piss you off before I get an answer. You're