From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 15 04:00:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA21454 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA21449 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA00220; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709151103.EAA00220@implode.root.com> To: Scot Elliott cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panics when the root directory is executed In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:18:53 BST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:03:00 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I've been wondering why my maching hangs when I'm typing frantically and >I discovered why the other day... sometimes when I try to do a cd .., >the cd bit gets missed and I end up typing just .., which tries to >execute that directory. But it only does it if I've got ~/bin in my >path. If I type 'which ..' I get ~/bin/.. as the result. This also >happens if I just execute '/', ie. the root directory. The panic that >the kernel throws is: > >panic: ufs_lock : recursive lock not excepted, pid: ... I'm not able to reproduce this problem with 2.2-stable as of today or even as of about 3 weeks ago. My tests were with bash-2.01, which was the only bash-2 version I could find at the moment. >My setup is: > >FreeBSD Billy.poptart.org 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 2 00:17:32 >BST 1997 scot@Billy.poptart.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/IDE i386 Could you update your system to the latest 2.2-stable and let me know if the problem still exists? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project