> >NetBSD-1.4.2_ALPHA is currently ready for testing.  I have built
> >binaries for
> >	i386
> >	alpha
> >	sparc
> >	hp300
> >and have uploaded these binaries to ftp.netbsd.org.
>
> 	Thanks for the effort,

You're welcome. :-)

> 	I upgraded my home email server to NetBSD/i386 1.4.2_ALPHA
> 	(how brave I am) and seen several panics due to filesystem
> 	code.  There seem to be some locking problem somewhere in
> 	ufs/vfs (not lfs, as suggested in the memo from releng).  It
> 	is not really related to load, occurs on relatively low load
> 	situations as well.
>
> 	I'll try to gather stack traces.  If you have similar
> 	experience I would like to hear your problem.

I've not seen this on any of my build systems, and at least two of
them have been running the release branch code of various vintage
over the past several months.  Maybe I'm just lucky...

Please do collect as much information as you can, and submit this as
a formal problem report with send-pr.  Hopefully this problem can be
found and fixed (if it is indeed a bug in NetBSD) before we ship
1.4.2.

Thanks for the testing, and best regards from

- H=E5vard