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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:45:42 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Matt Emmerton <matt@compar.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0, FFS corruption and ancient hardware
Message-ID:  <20060319214542.GA7164@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <001701c64b9d$94b44a70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <000c01c64b72$321d6520$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20060319174831.GA3270@xor.obsecurity.org> <001701c64b9d$94b44a70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:39:19PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> > [ Asked on -questions on Friday; re-asking now on -stable without
> > cross-post]
> >
> > I recently upgraded a 4.11-REL machine to 6.0-REL and have run into some
> > snags.  While the installation from CD went fine, after configuring and
> > enabling my ed0 NIC, bad things start to happen.
> >
> > FWIW, this machine is an ancient (hardware circa 1991, BIOS circa 1994)
> > dual-Pentium 133 MHz machine, with EISA/PCI and onboard SCSI.
> >
> > So far I can reliably reproduce two panics, one appears to be a ed driv=
er
> > bug (based on reports of similar panics with different NICs, notably ng=
e)
> > and one is a filesystem corruption problem.
> >
> > Here's the process that I go through to reliably reproduce both problem=
s.
> > 1) Boot machine in multi-user mode
> > 2) After ifconfig ed0, machine panics with a trap 12 in ithread_loop.
> > 3) In debugger, reset (or panic to get vmcore)
> > 4) Reboot in multi-user mode, but set "hint.ed.0.disabled=3D1" in the b=
oot
> > loader (to avoid ifconifg panic)
> > 5) Root filesystem is fsckd; all other filesystems are scheduled for
> > background fsck
> > 6) Encounter panic "ffs_valloc: dup alloc"
>=20
> I think this part is because you have filesystem corruption from your
> previous panic.  Force a fsck in foreground mode and it should clear
> it up.
>=20
> --
>=20
> That prevents the FFS panic from occurring.  I had forgot about the fact
> that fsck in multi-user mode runs as "fsck -p" which only catches a limit=
ed
> subset of filesystem errors.

OK, now you can post about your other panic :-)

Kris

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