Subject: Re: i386 1.4Q hangs nonrandomly?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 01/28/2000 21:00:05
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 03:46:35PM -0400, David Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:48:45PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> > In message <200001281833.KAA01010@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:
> > >The problem is that the tunefs's change of the superblock was undone
> > >by the file system writing its copy of the superblock back out to disk.
> >
> > I found a workaround.
> >
> > # kill 1
> > [...]
> > Enter pathname[...]
> > # sync
> > # sync
> > # tunefs -A -n enable /dev/rwd0a
> > # [hit power switch]
I may have missed an earlier explanation, but what is wrong about
# shutdown now
[ ... ]
Enter pathname[...]
# mount -u -o ro /
[which _guarantees_ that the filesystem is flushed to disk, and
wont be touched anymore]
# tunefs
# halt
?
Regards,
-is