Fedora Core 1 on PE700 shutdown problems

[Norman Gaywood]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:02:10PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> I just installed Fedora Core 1 on a PowerEdge 700 server.
 
> 1. The machine sometimes hangs when shutting down.  The
> 	last message it prints to the screen is
> 	Unmounting filesystems:
> 	and then it just sits there.  I am running software
> 	RAID with two mirrored drives.  I wonder if the
> 	problem occurs in the RAID software.

This is probably the FC1 SMP kernel problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962

and probably the same bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497

The bugzillas provide several workarounds. The comments at the end of
first bugzilla mentioned above gives hope that this problem will be
fixed soon.

> 2. The machine will not power off automatically when it
> 	does shut down completely.

Can't help with this one.

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