From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 23:08:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BD816A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.30.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A041243D46 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: from robbins.dropbear.id.au (210.50.202.24) by smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.024) id 402BA927006D199D; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:08:49 +1100 Received: by robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 247A84163; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:08:51 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:08:51 +1100 From: Tim Robbins To: Don Bowman Message-ID: <20040305070851.GA72131@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:08:53 -0000 On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:31:51AM -0500, Don Bowman wrote: > periodically (once a day or so), i'm getting a panic > as 'panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block'. [...] > Suggestions on what I should look for or try? Dropping to single user mode & forcing a fsck (with the -f option) should fix this. It's a symptom of some kind of filesystem inconsistency that soft updates isn't expecting, and that background fsck isn't trying to detect or repair. Tim