From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 16 15:13:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03116 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:13:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotrats.apl.washington.edu (hotrats.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03111 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:13:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kargl@hotrats.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from kargl@localhost) by hotrats.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.8.8) id PAA12153; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kargl) From: "Steven G. Kargl" Message-Id: <199811162317.PAA12153@hotrats.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: kernel panics with SMP In-Reply-To: <19981117092941.N717@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 17, 1998 9:29:41 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:17:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > On Monday, 16 November 1998 at 13:37:49 -0800, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > FreeBSD-current, cvsup'd on Saturday 14 Nov 98. > > > > SMP system, Micron Millenium Pro2 (dual Pentium Pro) with > > 256 MB memory, Adaptec 2940 controller, 1 $.3 GB seagate drive. > > > > DDB message: > > [trace deleted] > > It would be nice to see the panic string, but it's pretty sure to be > "ffs_blkfree: bad size". It looks as if it's fixed; wait a day or > so. In the meantime, you can work around it with > > # sysctl -w vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0 > Thanks. My problem may be a combination of a broken BIOS and a out-of-date config(8). On the bright side, I've learned about the dangers with an async mount option. Luckily, this is a new install, and I did not lose anything of importance. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message