Fedora Unmount Problem

[Rick Stevens]

mylar wrote:
> 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).

Yikes!  The latest is -2188nptlsmp, grabbable via "yum update".

> Thanks for the help Rick.

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