The following reply was made to PR kern/32409; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/32409: NetBSD-3.0/i386 vnlock deadlock
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:06:43 +0900

 >  But it seems this problem still exists on NetBSD 4.0 branch.
 >  This is NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 on Mar 8, 2007, I think.
 
 When I tried to reboot the machine, it printed:
 
 syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up
 Printing vnodes for busy buffers
 tag VT_UFS(1) type VDIR(2), usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 1, flags (0<LOCKSWORK>)
         tag VT_UFS, ino 74377, on dev 255, 0 flags 0x0, effnlink 2, nlink 2
         mode 040700, owner 1216, group 125, size 512 lock type vnlock: EXCL (count 1) by pid 22360.1
 tag VT_UFS(1) type VDIR(2), usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 1, flags (0<LOCKSWORK>)
         tag VT_UFS, ino 74393, on dev 255, 0 flags 0x0, effnlink 2, nlink 2
         mode 040700, owner 1037, group 125, size 512 lock type vnlock: EXCL (count 1) by pid 26621.1
 tag VT_UFS(1) type VDIR(2), usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 1, flags (0<LOCKSWORK>)
         tag VT_UFS, ino 74391, on dev 255, 0 flags 0x0, effnlink 2, nlink 2
         mode 040700, owner 1181, group 125, size 512 lock type vnlock: EXCL (count 1) by pid 14488.1
 giving up
 rebooting...