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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:15:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Eric Jones <ejon@zipnet.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        wink@zip0.zipnet.net (Jim Winkleman), ejon@zip0.zipnet.net (Eric Jones)
Subject:   vm problem in 2.1-stable
Message-ID:  <199602082215.RAA00401@zip0.zipnet.net>

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Dear Cognosenti,
	I'm running a 2.1-stable system taken from the tree on or
about December 6, and have had a perplexing crash.  I'm wondering if
this sounds familiar to anybody and whether it's a known (and hopefully
fixed!) bug.
	A user (unprivileged) was running mail (yes, /usr/bin/mail).
When he exited, the process hung in a vmopar state.  At approximatly
the same time a message was logged to /var/log/messages which said:

/kernel: biodone: buffer already done

Some hours later (the process was still hung) the same user attempted
to invoke mail again.  This brought on a system panic, which logged
the message:

/kernel: panic: vinvalbuf: flush failed

Unfortunately, I don't have a dump to do a postmortem on.  If it happens
again, I will.

Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Please send them to ejon@zipnet.net, as I'm currently too mobile
to subscribe to ANY mailing lists.  Also please cc: wink@tiac.net
as he is definitely interested in the outcome of discussions.

Thanks,
Eric




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