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Troy Wollenslegel wrote:
> 
> We have a Netware 4.1 server and I have not been able to down it for
> months. Whenever I attempt to down the server, it starts and as it
> attempts to dismount some of the volumes it hangs (10-20 minutes). I then
> end up doing a hard reboot. I have tried vrepair and that has not seemed
> to fix anything.
> 
> Any ideas are appricated.
> 
> Troy
> --
> Troy Wollenslegel
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First apply all patches from support.novell.com (u didnt indicate
anything here), then when you have a free moment (ya, who does...)  boot
the server, and then down it. Does it occur now?

Several things can prevent a volume from downing (new verb)....

1) A thread may have a lock on the file system
2) Many NLMs need to shut down when the system downs, any one of those
could be the culprit
3) You could have had a memory corruption which is causing the volume
table to get whacked, preventing a down.

4) A semaphore may be asserted

5) All disk must be flushed prior to shutdown. A bad disk driver or HAM
can be the culprit

Last, go into debugger, which process is eating all the time???

If still stuck send me a coredump.