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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:13:12 +0000
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   "panic: ffs_blkfree" in recent JPSNAP
Message-ID:  <3E052DC8.2040403@cream.org>

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'ello all!

My 5.0-CURRENT-20021215-JPSNAP system is reliably panic-ing and dropping 
into the debugger a few minutes after booting.

I was in the process of trying to boot 5.0-RC2's installation floppies, 
and the boot failed due to a faulty floppy. So I told the loader to boot 
from my root partition on my HDD instead. This produced some error 
messages about filesystems not being properly dismounted (not sure if 
that is true...), but booted anyway. Now, every boot from the HDD 
produces the panics.

After being up for a few minutes, the machine panics saying (all 
messages hand-transcribed):

dev=ad0s1e, block=33336, fs=/tmp
panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
Debugger("panic")
Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx, in_Debugger()

Unfortunately I don't (yet) know the first thing about how to debug 
something like this, so for the hell of it I typed "trace" and got the 
following (I'm missing out the values inside the ()'s as thats a lot of 
writing - but I'll report back anything that the developers need to know) :

Debugger(...)
panic(...)
ffs_blkfree(...)
indir_trunc(...)
handle_workitem_freeblocks(...)
process_worklist_item(...)
softdep_process_worklist(...)
sched_sync(...)
fork_exit(...)
fork_trampoline(...)

If anybody needs more information then please let me know, as I said I 
have it panic-ing reliably.

I guess that booting single-user and then fsck-ing might well fix the 
problem, but I wanted to take the opportunity to report what is one of 
the very few panics I've had in many years of FreeBSD usage. And I'm 
planning to install RC2 on this machine anyway.

Thanks!

Andrew


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