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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:47:51 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Chris Hardie <chris@summersault.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysterious ffs_clusteralloc kernel panics: need help!
Message-ID:  <20000720094750.A50320@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190410410.531-100000@summersault.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190410410.531-100000@summersault.com>

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On Wednesday, 19 July 2000 at  4:26:49 -0500, Chris Hardie wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I'm having a very frustrating problem involving some seemingly random
> kernel panics.  Every couple of days, around 3:30 in the morning when
> periodic:daily is in to some hot and heavy disk activity, the kernel
> issues a "ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch" message and the machine reboots.
> I have rebuilt the kernel, run fsck several times, checked the bios
> settings, and can't figure out what to do next.  Any insight is much
> appreciated - it's a high production system and we just can't have it
> rebooting!
>
> Possibly related: in each crash, the /var/log/messages file has a large
> 4-5 hour gap in it preceeding the crash, where it appears that syslogd
> isn't writing out its activity.
>
> The problem appears to be very similar to GNATS PR 16740:
>
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16740
>
> which looks unresolved.
>
>
> bash-2.03# gdb -k
> ...
> (kgdb) symbol-file kernel.debug
> (kgdb) exec-file /var/crash/kernel.1
> (kgdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.1
> IdlePTD 3616768
> initial pcb at 2ec628
> panicstr: lockmgr: locking against myself
> panic messages:
> ---
> panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch
>
> syncing disks... panic: lockmgr: locking against myself
>
> dumping to dev 20401, offset 542720
> dump 255 254 253 252 251 250 249 248 247 246 245 244 243 242 241 240 239
> <snip>
> ---
> #0  0xc0163d7f in boot ()

OK, now do a backtrace ('bt').

> # dmesg
> Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.

We don't need this.

Greg
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