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Subject: Re: kern/138444: open-vm-tools-nox11-167859_1 hgfs cause a kernel
 panic
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> Done. No change however, the issue is identical to the one I reported.
> I'm however convinced that the panic I reported is not the root cause,
> but the witness message I get before the panic that reboots the box.
> 
> I've included the console stacktrace for that at the bottom. The trigger
> after that is all that uses a VFS operation (make clean triggers, but so
> does a simple pwd).

I've ported open-vm-tools 2009.08.24-187411 to ports, and the bug is
also present in that version.

I'll mail the maintainer of that port to see if a patch to a new version
makes him happy. I'll see if I can start debugging this issue.


Regards,


	Igmar