From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 21 16:12:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16791 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ganymede.frii.com (ganymede.frii.com [208.146.240.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16755 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnat@frii.com) From: gnat@frii.com Received: from elara.frii.com (elara.frii.com [208.146.240.9]) by ganymede.frii.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA07227; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:12:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from gnat@localhost) by elara.frii.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA01408; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:10:38 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:10:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710212310.RAA01408@elara.frii.com> To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE reboots In-Reply-To: <9710220002.aa25441@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <199710212231.QAA00429@elara.frii.com> <9710220002.aa25441@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.103) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Malone writes: > Last time I checked any user could generate a panic > similar to this by typing: > mkdir /tmp/t > mount_msdos /tmp/t /tmp/t > Is anyone likely to have done this? Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that's our culprit. For a start, very few people have login access to the NFS server. Also, the start of and lulls in rebooting seem to be roughly correlated with minivend activity. Minivend does two things which might be related to the panic: named pipes (over an NFS-mounted file, with the client and server on the same machine) and file locking using flock. This could just be a red herring, though. The other mention I found of this in the bugs database related to a version of bash which we don't have installed. Just in case, I'm chmodding 700 mount_msdos on all our systems. :-) Nat