From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 18: 9:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE99337B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D01C96ACCA; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:39:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:39:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Moran Cc: Mark Drayton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newfs/vinum kernel panic Message-ID: <20010725103934.E42993@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010724120439.A2885@drex.staff.izr.com> <3B5D6A37.A25704B@iowna.com> <20010724161310.A3646@drex.staff.izr.com> <3B5D9373.77349209@iowna.com> <20010725084828.M75783@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B5E04B1.DD870302@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B5E04B1.DD870302@iowna.com>; from wmoran@iowna.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:28:50PM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 24 July 2001 at 19:28:50 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> I can build a debugging kernel if anyone wants me to. >>> >>> Wouldn't hurt. >>> >>>> I'm considering trying different motherboards (we've got plenty of other >>>> machines with the same boards/CPUs), although I've got another dual >>>> PII/350 (same board and one IBM disk) on 4.3-RELEASE/SMP kernel which is >>>> rock solid. Is this newfs problem characteristic of hardware trouble? >>> >>> That seems to suggest a HW problem. >> >> Why? > > Err ... Two machines with same hardware. One works perfectly, the > other tends to panic. I would tend to suspect a hardware problem on > the one that panics. However, I'd be interested to hear your > theory, as I'm always willing to learn. Well, my theory is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Once we have the symbols, the dump should tell us what's wrong. There's every indication in this example that it's a Vinum bug, probably triggered by an incorrect config file. >>> Definately try swapping mobos then. >> >> You're making him do a lot of work here without any particular reason. > > What would you suggest? What I do suggest. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message