From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 23 19:23:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA22553 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA22539 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14865 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Sep 1997 02:23:47 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha-091897 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: Help Requested - system Panic in __getcwd() Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Chuck Robey; On 24-Sep-97 you wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > > > May I please solicit your assistance in solving a difficulty I am > > experiencing with FreeBSD kernel, in the last day or so. > > > > The version of the doftware in question is 3.0-current. The CVS update > > of > > the source tree is current as of last night (The 22nd of September). > > > > The symptoms are a panic, in idle systems, in __getcwd. There is a > > reference to a virtual address 0x78 which appears to be invalid. > > > > I have searched the freebsd-current mailing list dilligently and found > > no > > mention of this problem. > > > > In case this was already reported, please accept my apologies and view > > this > > message as a confirmation of the problem's existance. > > > > If there is any way in which I can be of assistance in expediting a > > solution, please let me know. I will be happy to help. > > > > [ I hope the language in this message is meek and polite enough as to > > not > > offend any of you which I apparently have offended in the past - an > > offense > > I deeply regret ] > > I think maybe you caught Justin at a bad time, when he was arguing with > Terry (apparently a regular thing). Anyhow, Poul did a little tweaking > with getcwd a little while back, warning that it was a little > experimental > at the time, I think. Maybe you're tweaking his tweak now? Justin? He has nothing to with the note above. Although much of his argument with Terry escaped me, it was a boost for my morale in some strange way (here I go again :-) The crash is very easy to induce; Just ftp into the machine in question. I am still trying to isolate it. --- Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 23-Sep-97, 19:16:44 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.643.5559, Emergency: 503.799.2313