From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: The system gets into some(???) state where attmeping to issue the sync command from the shell prompt, or shutting the ssytem down (which issues the sync command) cases a kernel oops. After issueing either init 0 or 6 at the shel pormpt the system will hang when attempting to unmount disks. Since the disks can not be unmounted, the system can not be cleanly shutdown. I will attach the output from syslog as well as some information about my running system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. wait for system to get into this funky state 2. issue the sync command 3. try to shutdown Actual Results: kernel oops Expected Results: a nice clean sync of the disks and system shutdown Additional info:
Created attachment 101873 [details] syslog entries from sync problem
Created attachment 101874 [details] Ouput from lspci lspci listing showing shipset information (if this is usefull).
can you try and repeat this with the 2.6.9 update kernel please ?
At first glance it appears the problem is resolved. I am remote to the system right now, and have issued the sync command about a dozen times. When I get in front of the machine I will try a shutdown. So far so good.
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