Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:37:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "David K. Phinney" <dave@dowco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: biodone panic? Message-ID: <20000211123746.F76521@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <38A34A93.2BFE9D3@dowco.com> References: <38A34A93.2BFE9D3@dowco.com>
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On Thursday, 10 February 2000 at 15:32:35 -0800, David K. Phinney wrote: > Hello, > > Our FreeBSD-2.2.8 mail server just spontaneously rebooted. I didn't see > it happen, but the last message in the messages log was "/kernel: > biodone: buffer already done". Can anyone explain what this means? I > would've searched the archives but they're down right now. It means that some internal program logic got screwed up. An I/O request completed twice. Without a dump, it's almost impossible to do anything with this message. Even with a dump, it would be difficult. It's just barely possible that some flaky hardware has allowed this to happen (it could be bad program logic in recovery code, for example). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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