From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 20:17:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB7D16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from doom.homeunix.org (8-095.dialup.comset.net [213.172.8.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD22043F85 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@doom.homeunix.org) Received: from doom.homeunix.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by doom.homeunix.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB54El31001121; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:14:54 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@doom.homeunix.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by doom.homeunix.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hB54DsFm001120; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:13:54 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:13:54 +0300 From: Igor Pokrovsky To: Brett Glass Message-ID: <20031205041354.GA1093@doom.homeunix.org> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Glass , stable@freebsd.org References: <200312040413.VAA14830@lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312040413.VAA14830@lariat.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic during kernel rebuild; file system left inconsistent X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:17:42 -0000 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