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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 21:02:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
To:        Igor Timkin <ivt@gamma.ru>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: blkfree: freeling free block/frag
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.980520210225.27459B-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805191226.QAA16988@crocus.gamma.ru>

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Exact same problem and resolution I reported a looong time ago.  3.0, no
problem, 2.2.5, crash city.

Glad it worked.

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Igor Timkin wrote:

> Terry Lambert writes:
> > > Every 4-8 days my news server (~10 full incoming feeds, ~50
> > > outgoing feeds) crash:
> > > panic: blkfree: freeing free block
> > > or
> > > panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > > /dev/ccd0c	/var/spool/news	ufs	rw,async,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 2
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > > dev=0x1502, block=20372, fs=/var/spool/news
> > > panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
> > > syncing disk 
> > > (unfortunately at this point the system is freeze and I have
> > > make the hardware reset, so I don't have crash dump).
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > > Any suggestion ?
> > 
> > Short answer:
> > 
> > Your options are:
> > 
> > (1)	Live with it
> > (2)	Don't mount the device async
> > 
> > Long Answer:
> > 
> > Generally, this type of problem means you should rebuild the news spool,
> > since *any* corruption could result in invalid information on the disk
> > that could result in a panic.
> > 
> > Most likely, you crashed once, and you expected fsck to do something
> > that it can't do reliably: recover an async mounted partition.  The
> > partition was "recovered" and marked clean, but when you reference
> > a particular disk metadata construct, it goes off into the weeds
> > because the recovery was imperfect.
> > 
> > 
> > 					Terry Lambert
> > 					terry@lambert.org
> > ---
> > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> > or previous employers.
> > 
> 
> I solved this problem. After upgrade 2.2.5-REL to 3.0-971225-SNAP
> my nntp server has uptime:
>  4:20PM  up 38 days, 17:46, 7 users, load averages: 1.92, 1.68, 1.92
> kernel configs and patches for 512M RAM are identical for both 2.2.5 and 3.0.
> No any panics.
> 
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