>Number:         8118
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       shutdown often fails to be clean
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 30 07:20:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lennart Augustsson
>Organization:
>Release:        NetBSD-current 990730
>Environment:
System: NetBSD opus 1.4I NetBSD 1.4I (OPUS) #17: Fri Jul 30 14:01:29 CEST 1999 augustss@opus:/extra/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/OPUS i386


>Description:
	When I reboot my development machine it often fails to
	sync all buffers.  This happens perhaps in one out of five
	shutdowns.
	First, there is usually one buffer that cannot be synced,
	so it seems a bit silly that all 4 of my filesystems are
	not marked clean.  Surely, the unsynced buffer can only
	belong to one of the file systems?
	Second, if there was a way to find out what which buffer
	(and why) it was failing to sync, then maybe I could find
	a cure.  Is there a way?
>How-To-Repeat:
	reboot/reboot/reboot/reboot/reboot/reboot/reboot/....
>Fix:
	If a had one, I would fix it.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: