reboot-signals is only listed in the 2.6 series patches;
i didn't think to try it.

hey, THANKS! _it applies_ and almost solves the problem completely!!!

of my 20 simultaneous UMLs only one failed to launch:

    Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found

is all it does - and it just sits there....

also on reboot - do you expect the deactivate_all_fds to fail?

umount: /dev: device is busy
Please stand by while rebooting the system.
Restarting system.

deactivate_all_fds failed, errno = 9
Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found
Checking for /proc/mm...found


Jeff Dike wrote:

> dbahi@enterasys.com said:
> 
>>ok - i have skas hosts - and i'm tired of this occasional hang. 
> 
> 
> Have you tried the reboot-signals patch?
> 
> 				Jeff
> 

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