Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:09:57 +0100 From: David Larkin <David.Larkin@djl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Message-ID: <3917D5E5.951393B@DJL.co.uk>
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--------------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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi, <br>Is anyone familiar with the error message <p>panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs <p>I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during <br>installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it <br>on a system that's been working fine for some time. <p>AMD-K6(tm)-2/450 <br>256 MB RAM <br>FUJITSU MPD3173AT <br>FreeBSD 3.3 <p>Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to <br>run FSCK manually a couple of times. <p>I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals. <p>soft error writing fsbn <p>the system has now crashed and now will not boot. <p>Changing root device to wd0s1a <br>WARNING: / was not properly dismounted <br>swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device <br>Automatic reboot in progress... <br>/dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 blocks, 0.4% fragmented) <br>/dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS <br>/dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, 6.6% fragmentation) <br>/dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS <br>/dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% fragmentation) <br>panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs <br>syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up <p>Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome. <br>However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on the following would be a start. <p>Is this a disk hardware problem ? <br>Is it configuration problem ? <br>Are contents of disk corrupt ? <br>Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ? <p>It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr <br>partition up to about 65% full. <p>Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance <br>Dave <pre>---------------------------------------------------- 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) -----------------------------------------------------</pre> </html> --------------E3658143A85D47B000053571-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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