Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:18:21 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Peter van Heusden <pvh@wfeet.za.net> Subject: Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE) Message-ID: <20060817191821.GB33267@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200608171324.48815.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <44DED670.9050601@wfeet.za.net> <200608141430.38015.jhb@freebsd.org> <44E426E5.2000703@wfeet.za.net> <200608171324.48815.jhb@freebsd.org>
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--mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote: > > Thanks for the advice John. I upgraded to 6-STABLE and just got a kernel > > panic again. Before I list the dump, I'd like to mention two messages I > > see in my syslog. Firstly, often I get something like this: > >=20 > > kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 151698, > > size: 28672 This can indicate that your swap disk is failing (or you are using a nonstandard swap setup like swapping to a file); it means that the kernel timed out trying to read/write from swap. If your disk is failing this can have secondary effects (like panics) from the failed operation, since data was lost. Kris --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE5MD8Wry0BWjoQKURAnibAKCffVos5+iDSjoUpFL13ImvC8XhlQCdFOkt hdDaHrYA57G6A1NNHbyTGYw= =RqAO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t--
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