Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:37:08 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <syjef@hal-pc.org> Subject: Re: Help with a rash of panics Message-ID: <01e101c184b5$31a63e10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200112141525.JAA26408@mail.hal-pc.org>
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From your description, it appears that the only thing that changed between the time before you got the panics and the time after was your physical moving of the system. Therefore it is logical to assume that you have a hardware problem. You can rebuild your disk structure from your most recent backups and see if the problem goes away (which it might, if the hardware problem was temporary and has now gone away). If the problem persists, you probably will have to replace some hardware, most likely the disk drives, since they the most sensitive to movement. You'll want to take a full backup before the hardware replacement and then restore everything from scratch afterwards. If you changed something in software at the same time, then software might still be the problem. But software doesn't change by itself, so if it worked before, it should continue working now, and if it stops working, hardware is the immediate suspect. ----- Original Message ----- From: <syjef@hal-pc.org> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 16:25 Subject: Help with a rash of panics > I will give the short version of the story. If anyone thinks the long version > will be helpful, I will see what all I can give you. > > I recently moved to a new house, and when I first tried to bring my system (a > Pentium III, Asus MB, a Western Digital HD as primary master and Samsung and > primary slave) I was met with several messages scrolling by referring to inode > problems. This happened during the automatic checks while the filesystems were > being mounted. The system had been shutdown correctly prior to being moved. At > this time I was running 4.4-(STABLE?). From that point in time I have received > kernel panic after kernel panic, probably 95% of the time they have been ufs > related, the other 5% have pretty well been invalid page faults. The Western > Digital HD checks out under their data lifeguard tools. I have no diagnostic > tools for the Samsung. > > Having lost enough data through these repeated panics I went out and bought the > most recent copy of FreeBSD I could find, which was 4.3. I have finally gotten > that installed, but I did not newfs my root filesystem. The problem persists. > Today I received a panic that I hope will shed some light on this. I was > trying to dump my root filesystem and in the process received the following > message: > > /: bad dir ino 14338 at offset 2252: mangled entry > panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir > > I think the first line resembles the messages I would see scroll occassionally > while the system was booting. Does this message mean anything to anyone? > Thanks so much for the > help. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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