From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 07:13:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2205B16A4FA for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5341443D3F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:13:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.questions@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so379557wra for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:13:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AEXQEs72hgIllcSmCaBfxY8OtzlcNIQDLS4DgvLlI9hBlEfTSJ/73bnno/Ymjg9RKaU8QQeJnqUB4V0H5DxzLONOnedt9S6OlY79CmETRiEtu7CwinGRB/3zvT4eX4+nL2V8DVULNW5YSSfgHfQtbcMTLbnTtD1+xeJSAKQgVLg= Received: by 10.54.14.3 with SMTP id 3mr471752wrn; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.25.19 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:13:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <138bced704112323133d942afc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:13:31 -0700 From: FreeBSD Questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ffs_clusteralloc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:13:42 -0000 Hi there, I have a 5.2 box which I use as a general purpose server in my house. It has been a very good box up to now. I noticed that it wasn't responding last night so I took a look at it and there was a message which read: "panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch". Not thinking much of it other than "Oh an error, oh well ". I rebooted it. Now it refuses to boot. As soon as the login prompt appears I receive the same panic and the machine reboots. I did a google on it and found that the problem might be ram or hard disk. I ran memtest over the system a few times but that didn't yield any results. I then booted off an old 5.0 live disk I had and pulled off any files which I needed. So I haven't lost any critical data but I am wondering what to do next. The system was very stable off the live disk with no errors so it makes me wonder if it really is the disk which has gone. I was thinking about trying a binary upgrade to 5.3 to see if that fixed the problem since there is no way to keep the system stable enough to buildworld/kernel. The only change made in the last week was the fetch patch. Thoughts?