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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:22:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsdorg.FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   IMPORTANT!! Re: panic on mount
Message-ID:  <15281.4529.188277.263940@csa.bu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010925135203.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200109250019.RAA08335@windsor.research.att.com> <XFMail.010925135203.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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Hello,

Just to clarify things for everyone who may be having this probme:
there is a panic on bootup with current, within the witness* code.
You can avoid this by commenting out WITNESS in your kernel configuration
and recompiling. It worked for me..

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks,
Evan

John Baldwin writes:
 > 
 > On 25-Sep-01 Bill Fenner wrote:
 > > 
 > > I also started getting this error with recent kernels (in the last
 > > day or so).
 > 
 > It looks like the mutex is really held since the mtx_assert before
 > witness_unlock didn't trigger.  You can try turning witness off for the time
 > being as a workaround.  I'm not sure why witness would be broken, however.
 > 
 > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
 > > panic: lock (sleep mutex) vnode interlock not locked @
 > > /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_default.c:460
 > > Debugger("panic")
 > > Stopped at      Debugger+0x44:  pushl   %ebx
 > > db> t
 > > Debugger(c03c5bbb) at Debugger+0x44
 > > panic(c03c8c40,c03c4b80,c03ccf20,c03cc8a0,1cc) at panic+0x70
 > > witness_unlock(c7765f2c,8,c03cc8a0,1cc,c7765f2c,1,c03c4ba0,f6) at
 > > witness_unlock+0x1d0
 > > _mtx_unlock_flags(c7765f2c,0,c03cc8a0,1cc,c0567bd0) at _mtx_unlock_flags+0x59
 > > vop_nolock(c0567be8,c0567bf8,c02920c2,c0567be8,c0567d4c) at vop_nolock+0x24
 > > vop_defaultop(c0567be8) at vop_defaultop+0x15
 > > vn_lock(c7765ec0,20002,c049f7c4,c0567d4c,c1346680) at vn_lock+0xca
 > > ffs_mountfs(c7765ec0,c1351600,c049f7c4,c0446900,c0567d4c) at ffs_mountfs+0x7e
 > > ffs_mount(c1351600,0,0,0,c049f7c4) at ffs_mount+0x67
 > > vfs_mountroot_try(c05447a8,c03cc48c) at vfs_mountroot_try+0x14e
 > > vfs_mountroot(0,564c00,564000,0,c012caac) at vfs_mountroot+0x5a
 > > mi_startup() at mi_startup+0x90
 > > begin() at begin+0x43
 > > 
 > > I dunno how to get a dump from this point since kern.dumpdev hasn't been
 > > set..
 > > 
 > >   Bill
 > > 
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 > 
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