From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 3: 3:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from djl01.djl.co.uk (djl01.djl.co.uk [195.58.135.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A42B37B7EA for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 03:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from David.Larkin@djl.co.uk) Received: from DJL.co.uk (djl02.djl.co.uk [195.58.135.196]) by djl01.djl.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA02123; Tue, 9 May 2000 11:03:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3917D5E5.951393B@DJL.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:09:57 +0100 From: David Larkin Organization: DJL Software Consultancy Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------E3658143A85D47B000053571" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------E3658143A85D47B000053571 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Is anyone familiar with the error message panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it on a system that's been working fine for some time. AMD-K6(tm)-2/450 256 MB RAM FUJITSU MPD3173AT FreeBSD 3.3 Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to run FSCK manually a couple of times. I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals. soft error writing fsbn the system has now crashed and now will not boot. Changing root device to wd0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device Automatic reboot in progress... /dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 blocks, 0.4% fragmented) /dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, 6.6% fragmentation) /dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% fragmentation) panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome. However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on the following would be a start. Is this a disk hardware problem ? Is it configuration problem ? Are contents of disk corrupt ? Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ? It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr partition up to about 65% full. Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance Dave ---------------------------------------------------- David Larkin, D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd. The Industry Centre, Sunderland Enterprise Park, SR5 3XB UK Switchboard Tel: 44 191 5152666 Fax: 44 191 5152669 Direct Line Tel: 44 191 5153527 Fax: 44 191 5153527 Email David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk SMS-Email David.Larkin.SMS@DJL.co.uk (Max 160 char) ----------------------------------------------------- --------------E3658143A85D47B000053571 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,
Is anyone familiar with the error message

panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs

I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during
installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it
on a system that's been working fine for some time.

AMD-K6(tm)-2/450
256 MB RAM
FUJITSU MPD3173AT
FreeBSD 3.3

Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to
run FSCK manually a couple of times.

I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals.

soft  error writing fsbn

the system has now crashed and now will not boot.

Changing root device to wd0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device
Automatic reboot in progress...
/dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 blocks, 0.4% fragmented)
/dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, 6.6% fragmentation)
/dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% fragmentation)
panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs
syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up

Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome.
However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on the following would be a start.

Is this a disk hardware problem ?
Is it configuration problem ?
Are contents of disk corrupt ?
Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ?

It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr
partition up to about 65% full.

Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance
Dave 

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David Larkin, 
D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd. The Industry Centre, 
Sunderland Enterprise Park, SR5 3XB  UK
Switchboard Tel: 44 191 5152666 Fax: 44 191 5152669
Direct Line Tel: 44 191 5153527 Fax: 44 191 5153527
Email     David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk
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