From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 4 13:35:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04235 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:35:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04214 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:34:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with SMTP id QAA11811; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:34:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bruce Evans cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Device xx:name slot allocation failed (E=17) In-Reply-To: <199604041157.VAA10660@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > >I'm seeing this error in all my FreeBSD-current boxes now, and one of them (a > >32Mb P5-75 with an Adaptec 78xx controller), crashes. I suspect a buffer is > >being overwritten somewhere. The devices that the machines are compalining > >about are the disks, raw & block. It happens with both wd & sd devices. > > This was a bug in devfs. It was supposed to have been fixed about a month > ago. > Will look into it, but it shouldn't crash his system, I'm getting the same errors on boot up, and my system has been running now for the past 2 days, with no other problems other then those warnings... Unless he's using /devfs as /dev?? But then his syslogd wouldn't be working at all :( System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc