Description of Problem: Shutdown/Reboot hang on "Unmounting file systems". Keyboard is still responsive (enter outputs line break to stdout), but shutdown just halts there, and no file systems are umounted. Shutdown/Reboot IS successful with origonal kernel 2.4.2-2. Upgrade and reinstalls of 2.4.3-12 kernel from rpm cause problem to repeat. rpm -ivh --force of kernel 2.4.2-2 (and headers) make problem go away again. This is on a Dell Latitue CPi D266XT laptop with 96mb ram, 10gig hdd (which is non-standard. Bios only reports 8gig, linux uses full drive), 266 Pentium II. Output of fdisk -l /dev/hda: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 128 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 129 766 5124735 83 Linux /dev/hda3 767 783 136552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 784 2432 13245592+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 784 1803 8193118+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1804 2058 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda7 2059 2432 3004123+ 83 Linux cat /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 reiserfs defaults 0 3 /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 reiserfs defaults 0 3 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.3-12 How Reproducible: I don't have another machine I'm able to test this on at this time, but on this machine I have tested re-installing kernel-2.4.3-12 and headers adn source and docs, and it causes the same problems. Reverting to 2.4.3-12 fixes it. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information: Everything else is functioning normally with new kernel. System runs fine until shutdown attempts (which would actually be fine by me if this wasn't a laptop). The hard drive is non-standard for this laptop and is above max size. I doubt this has anything to do with it, but it might. The origonal hard drive is completely dead, or I'd swap it back in and test with it. Reverting to kernel 2.4.2-2 fixes the problem, and the bugs on it don't seem to be too bad, so it's an acceptable solution for me for now.
There is a known issue in 2.4.3-12 wrt reiserfs unmounting; I've put up a fixed 2.4.3 kernel at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels/ for this; might be worth a try. (sometimes some architectures are missing, I don't have too much quota but if one is missing just ask and I'll put it up somehow)
Thank you! 2.4.3-18 fixed the problem.
When are we going to get an official 'update' to the kernel. RH7.1 kernels are pretty old now.