Re: XFS problem: system hang during shutdown; corruption reported by xfs_check

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jason White wrote:

> Eric Sandeen writes:
>  > It looks like the filesystem is not in bad shape;
>  > ideally make sure it's been cleanly unmounted, then
>  > point a recent xfs_repair at it.  Running that
>  > under an old kernel should not be a problem.
> 
> Thanks.
> Repair fixed the disconnected inode, and that was it (the file in
> /lost+found turned out to be empty).
> 
> Is there any test you would like to be run if the system hangs again
> durning unmount? I expect to upgrade tis kernel before too long.

if you have kdb in place, enter kdb and backtrace the hung process,
that would be a hint.  

kdb> ps
kdb> btp <process id>

If no kdb, sysrq-t should dump all task info as well.

> Thank you once again for the help.
> Jason.

No problem!

-eric