Fedora Unmount Problem

[Rick Stevens]

mylar wrote:
> I recently installed Fedora Core 1 on a Dell 4600 machine. Thus far the
> install went fine and everthing is working great.
> 
> However I have one small problem. Every once in a while when I shut the
> machine down the system will hang indefinately when unmounting the file
> systems. This doesn't happen all the time, every so often it will just
> hit the step where it says "Unmounting file systems" and it will just
> stop dead. 
> 
> Any ideas as to why this happens ? I am using ext3 file systems.

I've seen this myself on occasion, but mostly on SMP platforms.  It's
a weird kernel race condition and is usually fixed by updating the
kernel (the current kernel is 2.4.22--1.2188nptl).
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