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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--ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAlQO7Wry0BWjoQKURAsm7AJ4nuV1NkBFd+Vbvv7faL7RdoTaSjwCeO1IP l6q1E8d2z6LyOezsEUsw+ZQ= =9CEY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH--
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