From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 14:34:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from VM.SC.EDU (vm.sc.edu [129.252.45.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8130214F4B for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MBKING0@VM.SC.EDU) Received: by VM.SC.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R4a) via spool with SMTP id 7343 ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:33:34 EDT Received: from UNIVSCVM (NJE origin MBKING0@UNIVSCVM) by VM.SC.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 9402; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:33:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 99 17:14:46 EDT From: Marius Organization: University of South Carolina Subject: vinval buf: dirty bufs To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG Message-Id: <19990718213426.8130214F4B@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Appearently I have a problem whenever I try to surf the web with Netscape. If I can seeminly surf till my heart is content, but it creates problems later. I need only look at half a dosen web sites, and then I cannot shutdown properly. When I try to shutdown I get this error: panic vinval buf: dirty bufs automatic reboot in 15 seconds When I let it reboot, It tells me that root was not properly dismounted, but recovers: warning / not properly dismounted /dev/rwd0s2a SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD (SALVAGED) /dev/rwd0s2a BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS (SALVAGED) It then goes on to check the other partitions, and everything is O.K. I can find no reference to this in the handbook or the archives. Does anyone know what is going on here? So far everything has been salvaged time and time again, but it is frightning to think that at some point it may not recover. As a side note, I have another problem that may be unrelated. Often X cannot allocate all the colormap entries I need for the display in a session. For example, there is no way I can open Netscape and xcoloredit in the same x-session. I would have to quit x and restart the session if I want to run xcoloredit in a session. As I am getting a new video card as part of a nominal upgrade I am not too worried about the colormap entries problem. I just mention it because I don't know if it is related. Can anyone give me a clue? ---------------------------------------- Marius mbking0@vm.sc.edu University of South Carolina, Columbia "We will get along fine once you realize that I am almost always wrong." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message