> 
> Quoting Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com,
> 
> > Running current supped Sept. 5th.  Machine was running fine.  I just
> > rebuilt the entire system and installed, so was going to reboot.
> > Typed "shutdown -r now".  Waited...  Came back a little later and
> > looked on the console and saw:
> 
> > 	syncing disks... panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs
> 
> This happens when you install a new /sbin/init (while the old one is 
> still running -- this is kind of hard to avoid ;-)).
> 
> It is a known problem, there is a send-pr of it by cgd somewhere I think.
> 
> - Frank
> 
A similar thing happens if you fool around with the dev nodes in "/dev"..