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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Status of the following bugs
In-Reply-To: <199708271211.IAA06186@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Aug 27, 97 08:11:10 am"
To: ponds!ponds!rivers (Thomas David Rivers)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:14:52 -0500 (EST)
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Thomas David Rivers said:
> > 
> > Mark Heath said:
> > > 
> > > Im having frequent (once every 2-3 hours) crashes, on a news server due to 
> > > the following bugs:
> > > 
> > > kern/2923: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr:f6e21000
> > > kern/2771           panic: bad dir
> > > kern/3582           panic: bad dir (mangled entry) in 2.2-STABLE
> > > 
> > > Does any one know what possible solutions or state of these bugs are.
> > > 
> > It is an NFS related bug, and havent had a chance to fully understand it.
> > I think that there is a quick hack out there to make the problem go away.
> > 
> > John
> 
>  Hmm... do you have more info that what's above (admittedly, I haven't
> looked at the tr's.)  These problems seem to be exactly my "daily
> panic" problem - but maybe there's more there that points you to NFS?
> 
There is a "quick hack" that I'll look for in my archives that appears to
make the problem go away (at least for another ISP NFS system.)

-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com