Re: reboot/halt/shutdown -d option

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 20:20:31 +0300
On 2007-05-02 20:07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Does the -d option of shutdown/reboot work for anyone else?
> 
> I've been trying to test the patch of bin/70536 on a recent HEAD
> installation, running on my laptop, and using the -d option of reboot
> seems to block forever when the kernel starts dumping.
> 
> The last messages I see on my console are:
> 
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...
> Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...1 1 1 0 0 done
> All buffers synced.
> Physical memory: XXX MB
> Dumping YY MB: 
> 
> and that's the last thing printed.  I tried escaping to KDB with
> CTRL+ALT+ESC but it seems that at this point KDB is no longer
> accessible.
> 
> FWIW, the value of debug.minidump is 1.  I'm going to try with 0 next,
> but i just thought I'd post this to see if anyone else has successfully
> used the -d flag to reboot/shutdown.

No luck with debug.minidump=0 either :-/
Received on Wed May 02 2007 - 15:21:27 UTC

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