From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 23:06:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09663 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09658 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA59399; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199812030713.XAA59399@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size In-Reply-To: <000301be1e82$2d849d00$0100a8c0@heather.my.domain> from Bret Ford at "Dec 2, 1998 10: 0: 2 pm" To: bford@uop.cs.uop.edu (Bret Ford) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:13:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Bret Ford: > Greetings, > > I've been getting kernel panic and reboot conditions under -current > for a while now---here's my attempt at a report: > > dev=0x20404, bno = 18, bsize = 8192, size = 8192, fs = /var > panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size > To work around the problem, as root do sysctl -w vfs.ffs.doreallocblks=0 Better. Compile a kernel with options DDB and debugging symbols. At your next crash try to get a dump. You'll need to set dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message