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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:13:54 +0300
From:      Igor Pokrovsky <tiamat@comset.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic during kernel rebuild; file system left inconsistent
Message-ID:  <20031205041354.GA1093@doom.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200312040413.VAA14830@lariat.org>
References:  <200312040413.VAA14830@lariat.org>

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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:13:46PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> I've got a 4.9 machine that's acting as a router and is lightly loaded
> otherwise. (There are a significant number of interrupts from network
> interface cards at all times, but disk usage is normally quite light.) When I
> typed
> 
> make depend; make; make install
> 
> to rebuild the kernel, the system had a panic during the "make" phase. Upon
> rebooting, I got a message saying that there was a "unexpected softupdates
> inconsistency" in /usr. After running fsck (which reported a large number of
> problems), I found that all of the files in the lost+found directory were
> (maybe not surprisingly) dependency files. I repeated the build, doing
> 
> nice make clean; sync; sleep 10; nice make depend; sync; ...
> 
> and this time the kernel built with no problems. I suspect (though I don't
> have a backtrace) that heavily loading the file system and/or the ata driver
> in the presence of many other interrupts can cause a panic which softupdates
> is not prepared to handle. Have others seen this?

I've seen the same message about softupdates, but it appeared after unexpected
power problems, when computer turned off without syncs and umounts.

-ip



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