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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" <jeffrl@wantabe.com>
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Subject: Re: panic: dirty bufs
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* Jeffrey J. Libman <jeffrl@wantabe.com> [000118 05:15] wrote:
> one of my machines with 3.4-stable (build of Friday Jan 14 cvsup'd the
> same day) just locked up with malloc errors ...couldn't even log onto the
> console. 
> 
> on cntrl-alt-delete, i got:
> 
> panic: vimvalbufs: dirty bufs
> 
> can you tell me what this means?

it means that for some reason when the kernel tried to flush a file
to the underlying storage (NFS, disk, whatever) it failed, without
a backtrace or your kernel config and a general idea of 'what you were
doing' before the panic, it's pretty hard to pin this down on anything.

please see:

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html

-Alfred


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