I have just had to reboot our filer for the second time in about 3 months. Both times the reboot failed with the error:

A CIFS I/O operation may be hung. Shutdown the system using halt -d
and report this incident to NetApp.

But I don't want to do a "halt -d". This causes a core dump which means that the filer may be down for about 10 mins. Is there a way of forcing a halt without using the -d switch (halt on its own just gives the CIFS error message again). I'm currently running 5.3.1D5.

- Bruce

PS The problem that caused me to reboot was that I was getting the error "Cannot find logon server" from PCs trying to connect to the filer. The reboot fixed this. Any ideas?

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Bruce Arden arden@nortelnetworks.com
Nortel, London Rd, Harlow, England +44 1279 40 2877