From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 20 14:45:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from 3rdrock.coserve.org (coserve1.panam.edu [129.113.165.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184D414BF5 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fabry@coserve.org) Received: from 3rdrock.coserve.org (3rdrock.coserve.org [198.213.49.88]) by 3rdrock.coserve.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA12431; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:38:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:38:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "Alain G. Fabry" To: Doug Rabson Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have tried to install FreeBSD about 5 times with the same error and no, I don't get any other error before this one. What is weird to me is that whenever I get the error and try to reinstall and label/partition the hard drive, all my previous labels/partitions from the previous installation disappear and am working with a unpartitioned drive. On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to install 3.1-19990326 on my Dec Workstation 200 4/166. > > Everything seems to be working fine. I go through the whole installation > > process, but at the end of extracting the bin code to the / directory, I > > get the following error. > > > > panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc > > panic > > Stopped at Debugger..Ng+0x24: ldq ra.0(sp) > > > > and then it takes me to the db> > > > > I also noticed that if I go through a reinstall, it seems to have a > > problem creating the partitions on the harddrive since it does not show > > the partitions during the reinstall. > > I hope this makes sense and can anybody please help me. > > TIA > > That seems unusual for a freshly newfs'ed filesystem. That kind of error > normally only appears after an unclean shutdown where there is un-synced > data. Were there any other error messages on the console before this > happened? Does this happen every time you install? > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message