From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 3 07:22:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12632 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 07:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12606 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 07:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24926; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:21:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Message-ID: <19981003152154.B24478@pavilion.net> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:21:54 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.0-BETA crash! References: <19981001193321.C12010@pavilion.net> <19981002104659.M24146@freebie.lemis.com> <19981002143858.K17581@pavilion.net> <19981003095717.F2176@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981003095717.F2176@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:57:17AM +0930 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-1273-607072 Fax: +44-1273-607073 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:57:17AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > And lo and behold I discover that my ffs_softdep.c is a copy and not > > a symlink! Oops. (bows head in shame). > > Amazing what you can find when you have a stack trace, eh? > Miraculous :) (I hit control C on windows 98 the other night an the whole system fell over! No chances of finding out what happened on that platform!) Unfortunately looks like I'm plagued with them this week. Another 3.0-BETA system froze last night. Upon a cold boot and investigation of messages the following transpires: Oct 2 02:01:21 gandalf /kernel: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count is < 0! Oct 3 02:01:32 gandalf /kernel: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count is < 0! Isn't it nice that an operating system panics so verbosely, although we should probably add a kernel option: option PANIC_BLUESCREEN # Support for the uninitiated to # make them feel at home. Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager FreeBSD: The power to serve (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message