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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:33:26 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc 
Message-ID:  <199611220033.TAA21459@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Nov 1996 07:53:24 EST." <199611161253.HAA26583@lakes.water.net> 

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Thomas David Rivers wrote in message ID
<199611161253.HAA26583@lakes.water.net>:
> > root@mail:/var/crash> gdb -k kernel vmcore.2
> > GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
> >  under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
> > GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd), 
> > Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
> > IdlePTD 1d5000
> > current pcb at 1abd64
> > panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
> > #0  boot (howto=260) at ../../i386/i386/machdep.c:912
> > 912             } else {
> > (kgdb) bt

>  Welcome to the club :-)

>  This is the panic that I have had for several months, which is
> duplicated almost every night.

Well, it just bit me again :-(

>  Rest assured that several people are investigating this at this
> time...

>  I believe it has something to do with the inode allocation bits in
> ffs_valloc().  Others believe some race conditions in vnode allocation
> are to blaim, etc...  David Greene is investigating other avenues.
 
>  It seems to me that we are closing in on the issue, if only by
> eliminating everything else :-)

Question:

it's always the same FS with me that bites the dust. Perhaps a
previous crash of the machine caused a FS corruption fsck isn't
picking up on. Has anyone who is being bothered by this dumped the fs
with *tar* (not dump) and resored to see if that fixes the problem?

Gary
--
Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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