From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 22 16:02:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA27806 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:02:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from hummin.sol.net (hummin.sol.net [204.95.172.243]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27800 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by hummin.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00799 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 18:02:08 -0600 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 18:02:08 -0600 From: Charlie Root Message-Id: <199512230002.SAA00799@hummin.sol.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Unusual crash, 2.1R, news server, ASUS SP3G DX4/100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Sorry for sending this from a system account, but I don't have a lot of tools handy right now.... I drove down to the office and my news server unexpectedly rebooted during the drive down here. # dmesg [....] sd22(ahc1:2:0): Direct-Access 2047MB (4194058 512 byte sectors) changing root device to sd0a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. uid 8 on /news/.4: out of inodes uid 8 on /news/.4: out of inodes kernel page directory invalid pdir=0x16de023, va=0xefbfe000 panic: invalid kernel page directory syncing disks... 34 34 29 18 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... FreeBSD 2.1.0-951026-SNAP #1: Tue Nov 28 12:09:54 CST 1995 jgreco@hummin.sol.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/HUMMIN CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes) avail memory = 46800896 (45704K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: .... etc What the heck was that??????? Could it be related somehow to the crashes I have been often seeing on this machine after "out of inodes" - it tends to panic with "panic: free vnode isn't".... Just trying to contribute a little debugging info, ... JG P.S. Merry Christmas!!