Matthew Dillon wrote:
>:I thought this was just a problem with the oct 16 copy I had, since I
>:knew that was when the VFS layer was in severe flux, but I've reproduced
>:it several times afterwards with an dec 5 copy as well.
>:
>:The following appears to semi-reliably trigger the abovementioned error
>:message:
>:
>:make buildworld/quickworld
>:make buildkernel KERNCONF=DOOM
>:make installkernel KERNCONF=DOOM
>:make installworld
>:
>:It appears to most commonly happen during buildkernel, but I'm not
>:entirely sure.
>:
>:The message in the subject pops up regularly, everything related to disk
>:seems to grind to a halt, and I'm unable to shut down the box in a
>:normal fashion. This is on a playbox, so if you're unable to reproduce
>:this, I'll be happy to assist in trying to find the bug, given good
>:enough instructions for how to proceed.
>
> Jan, see if you can get kernel core out of it. You may have to
> set sysctl kern.sync_on_panic=0, but then ctl-alt-esc'ing into
> the debugger (when the machine is in this locked up state) and
> typing 'panic' <return> (probably <return> a second time) should
> do it if you have the dumpdev set.
>
>
I'm sorry, I'm blind. I completely missed the sync_on_panic part, I'm
redoing it now, with sync_on_panic=0.
I'm assuming the core file'll be too big to attach in a mail, so I'll
get back to you with an URL you can download it from, unless you've got
an FTP server I should upload to?