Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:19:11 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser) Cc: grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.0-BETA crash! Message-ID: <199810031719.LAA13488@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <19981003152154.B24478@pavilion.net> from Josef Karthauser at "Oct 3, 98 03:21:54 pm"
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Josef Karthauser wrote... > 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. That isn't what caused your machine to panic. Those are informational messages from the devstat code. Basically they indicate that devstat support isn't correctly done in one of the drivers in your system. Can you send dmesg output from your machine? (one that shows your hardware, not all the devstat messages...) Also, what devices were you using when those messages popped up? It could be that you're using a "standard" driver, but that devstat transactions are getting completed too often in the error case. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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