chari@nueces.UUCP (Chris Whatley) (04/18/89)
I have had a Next system for about 2 1/2 months now and I am left with this question.... About 3-5 times a week, I usually have to reboot my system for some reason or another and I do a verbose boot (as opposed to watching a picture of a disk spinning around in a dialog). about two boots in five have disk problems that fsck fixes. I haven't actually lost any data (yet). Maybe 1 of the 3-5 reboots is after a graceful shutdown. Is this normal? Chris -- Chris Whatley | "fish.. plate... !bigtex!nueces!chari@cs.utexas.edu | plate of fish..." 1607 Nueces,Austin TX 78723 - 512/453-4238 |
jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) (04/20/89)
In article <264@nueces.UUCP> chari@nueces.UUCP (Chris Whatley) writes: > I have had a Next system for about 2 1/2 months now ... > About 3-5 times a week, I ... have to reboot my system ... [and] > about two boots in five have disk problems that fsck fixes. > > Maybe 1 of the 3-5 reboots is after a graceful shutdown. If you had a UNIX machine and were having this problem, I would suggest that after using /etc/shutdown, and while in single-user mode prior to any harware reset, you run a ps -e command and see if any tasks are still active that you thought would be zapped by the /etc/killall command. Sleep(1) commands invoked by init are sometimes especially reluctant to give up the ghost. Of course, if the shutdown is UNgraceful, you would kind of expect some sort of fsck activity. -- John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID 83707, (208) 343-1865 uunet!visdc!jiii