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Subject: Re: Panic - FFS background buffer bla bla
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:11:35PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>After rebooting (with a console plugged in), I get this:
>>Fast boot: skipping disk checks.
>>panic: panic: thread 100079(cp):2 holds Giant but isn't blocked on a lock
>>
>>cpuid = 0
>>KDB: enter: panic
>>[thread pid 27 tid 100001 ]
>>Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x30: leave
>>
>>Backtrace:
>>
[..snip..]

>>
>>Hope that helps.. Anything else I can give you?
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>
>That's actually not the real panic.  Look at the backtraces of other
>processes to find the first panic.  If you can examine the core in gdb
>to obtain source code line numbers, that would help too.
>  
>

Oh.. Ok, well, how do I find the real panic?  I can do any debugging 
needed - but I'm not sure what to do here as far as examining the core 
in gdb..

Eric