Fedora Unmount Problem

mylar micros50 at computer.net
Thu Apr 29 03:29:36 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:54, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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).

Which would make sense since the machine is running kernel
2.4.22-1-2115.nptlsmp which was installed since the processor employs
hyperthreading (1 processor appears as dual processor).

Thanks for the help Rick.

mylar


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