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Date:      Sun, 2 May 2004 07:20:43 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.10-PRERELEASE panic in FFS
Message-ID:  <20040502142043.GA84723@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040502112821.GB14823@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
References:  <20040502112821.GB14823@tuatara.fishballoon.org>

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On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:28:21PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> My -STABLE machine blew up last night, about 3 hours into compiling
> OpenOffice.  I wasn't awake at the time, so I don't know exactly what
> happened other than that I came in this morning to find a rebooted machine
> and a crash dump.  It happened around 2am - there might have been a mail
> synchronisation going on at the same time, but nothing much else.
>=20
> >From the comments in ffs_alloc.c it seems that there were no free blocks
> anywhere in a particular cylinder group, although there presumably should
> have been.  I don't know enough about FFS to know if this is really a bug,
> or a sign of some corruption in my filesystem that I should attend to.
>=20
> The same machine locked up a couple of times last weekend - one when
> compiling some part of KDE, then when encoding some MP3s.  No panic for
> either of these, just a hard lock.  We were having a micro-heatwave here
> that weekend so I figured it was a cooling problem I should look at before
> the summer really got going.

This really should make you suspicious.  I've often had filesystem
panics that were caused by overheated disks.

Kris

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