Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:19:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" <jeffrl@wantabe.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: dirty bufs Message-ID: <20000118051951.B8736@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001180647080.8337-100000@cutter.wantabe.com>; from jeffrl@wantabe.com on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:51:02AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001180647080.8337-100000@cutter.wantabe.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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