Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:19:13 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@compar.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0, FFS corruption and ancient hardware Message-ID: <20060319181913.6e70b696@localhost> In-Reply-To: <000c01c64b72$321d6520$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <000c01c64b72$321d6520$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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--Sig_0amq0g0D/xlt6/DHhhcKT5y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Matt Emmerton" <matt@compar.com> wrote: > 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. >=20 > FWIW, this machine is an ancient (hardware circa 1991, BIOS circa > 1994) dual-Pentium 133 MHz machine, with EISA/PCI and onboard SCSI. At least it got "lots" of memory, last week I installed FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a P90 with 16MB RAM. > So far I can reliably reproduce two panics, one appears to be a ed > driver bug (based on reports of similar panics with different NICs, > notably nge) and one is a filesystem corruption problem. >=20 > Here's the process that I go through to reliably reproduce both > problems. 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 > boot 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" > 7) In debugger, reset (or panic to get vmcore) Did you try to do a foreground fsck in single user mode? Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_0amq0g0D/xlt6/DHhhcKT5y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEHZKkjV8GA4rMKUQRAs03AJ0Q66YlOkS+WnvcCvO63SYH38tJnwCgi5Xh vl2L8F3uAzyt0U4xSzJoPe8= =WQ8u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_0amq0g0D/xlt6/DHhhcKT5y--
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