From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 8:26:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from djl01.djl.co.uk (djl01.djl.co.uk [195.58.135.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F4B37B8E5 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 08:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from David.Larkin@djl.co.uk) Received: from DJL.co.uk (djl02.djl.co.uk [195.58.135.196]) by djl01.djl.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA02828; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:26:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <39182044.30B433BF@DJL.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 15:27:16 +0100 From: David Larkin Organization: DJL Software Consultancy Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Subject: Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs / fixit.flp mount help References: <3917D5E5.951393B@DJL.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DD0DE4C5002D1ABE7256855C" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------DD0DE4C5002D1ABE7256855C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Still trying to get to bottom of 'panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs' problem described below. I've now booted the fixit floppy Could someone advise me how to check that certain files still exist on the hard disk. I guess I need to mount my /usr partition as /mnt /usr was /dev/wd0s1f on fixit floppy I have /dev/wd0s1 & /dev/rwd0s1 Can I mount the /usr partition ??? Assuming I can, and that I find the files I'm particularly keen not to lose, can I get them off , to floppy or by ftp ? They are modest sized source files. I've not been able to find any documentation on using fixit. Could someone point me in right direction. Thanks in advance Dave David Larkin wrote: > Hi, > Is anyone familiar with the error message > > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > > I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during > installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it > on a system that's been working fine for some time. > > AMD-K6(tm)-2/450 > 256 MB RAM > FUJITSU MPD3173AT > FreeBSD 3.3 > > Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to > run FSCK manually a couple of times. > > I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals. > > soft error writing fsbn > > the system has now crashed and now will not boot. > > Changing root device to wd0s1a > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device > Automatic reboot in progress... > /dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 > blocks, 0.4% fragmented) > /dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS > /dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, 6.6% > fragmentation) > /dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS > /dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% > fragmentation) > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up > > Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome. > However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on > the following would be a start. > > Is this a disk hardware problem ? > Is it configuration problem ? > Are contents of disk corrupt ? > Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ? > > It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr > partition up to about 65% full. > > Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance > Dave > > ---------------------------------------------------- > David Larkin, > D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd. The Industry Centre, > Sunderland Enterprise Park, SR5 3XB UK > Switchboard Tel: 44 191 5152666 Fax: 44 191 5152669 > Direct Line Tel: 44 191 5153527 Fax: 44 191 5153527 > Email David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk > SMS-Email David.Larkin.SMS@DJL.co.uk (Max 160 char) > ----------------------------------------------------- > --------------DD0DE4C5002D1ABE7256855C Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,
Still trying to get to bottom of 'panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs'
problem described below.

I've now booted the fixit floppy

Could someone advise me how to check that certain files
still exist on the hard disk.

I guess I need to mount my /usr partition as /mnt

/usr was /dev/wd0s1f

on fixit floppy I have /dev/wd0s1 & /dev/rwd0s1

Can I mount the /usr partition ???

Assuming I can,  and that I find the files I'm particularly keen
not to lose, can I get them off ,  to floppy or by ftp ?
They are modest sized source files.

I've not been able to find any documentation on using fixit.
Could someone point me in right direction.

Thanks in advance
Dave
 

David Larkin wrote:

Hi,
Is anyone familiar with the error message

panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs

I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during
installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it
on a system that's been working fine for some time.

AMD-K6(tm)-2/450
256 MB RAM
FUJITSU MPD3173AT
FreeBSD 3.3

Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to
run FSCK manually a couple of times.

I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals.

soft  error writing fsbn

the system has now crashed and now will not boot.

Changing root device to wd0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device
Automatic reboot in progress...
/dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 blocks, 0.4% fragmented)
/dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, 6.6% fragmentation)
/dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% fragmentation)
panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs
syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up

Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome.
However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on the following would be a start.

Is this a disk hardware problem ?
Is it configuration problem ?
Are contents of disk corrupt ?
Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ?

It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr
partition up to about 65% full.

Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance
Dave 

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David Larkin, 
D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd. The Industry Centre, 
Sunderland Enterprise Park, SR5 3XB  UK
Switchboard Tel: 44 191 5152666 Fax: 44 191 5152669
Direct Line Tel: 44 191 5153527 Fax: 44 191 5153527
Email     David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk
SMS-Email David.Larkin.SMS@DJL.co.uk (Max 160 char)
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