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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:37:39 +0000
From:      B J <va6bmj@gmail.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Kernel Panics With Firefox 63.x
Message-ID:  <CAP7QzkO8=A-DVa7GxEXv0gpJL4MnDirz6DVfzF%2B6GdAF9h7aag@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181113201830.f0eec001.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 11/13/18, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:28:53 +0000, B J wrote:
>> On 11/13/18, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:44:04 +0000, B J wrote:
>> >> I recently upgraded my system and that included Firefox.  It's been
>> >> troublesome ever since.  Often, it would crash for no apparent reason
>> >> and this morning, it started taking down my entire system.  The result
>> >> was that my machine would have to reboot.
>> >>
>> >> Now I can't use Firefox at all without having my machine going into a
>> >> kernel panic.
>> >
>> > Could you get any useful information from the kernel dump?
>>
>> I haven't looked at it in detail.  From the info file in /var/crash:
>>
>> Panic String:  ufs_dirbad:  /:  bad dir ino 719 at offset 512:  mangled
>> entry
>>
>> The core.txt file gives a lot more information in detail.
>
> Oh! This looks like a file system problem! Even though
> it sounds strange, file system inconsistencies can cause
> lots of problems, up to a complete system crash.

<snip>

Thanks for the info.  It looks like I've got some work ahead of me.
I'll look into that once I finish building FF from ports which, as I'm
writing this, is still in progress after about 2 hours.

BMJ



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