Re: i386 vnode-related panic after upgrading from 6.99.49 to 7.99.1

["Paul Pedaal" <ppedaal%mail.ee@localhost>]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:08:38 +0300, J. Hannken-Illjes  
<hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost> wrote:

> Could you build a custom kernel with this change:
>
> src/sys/kern/vfs_vnode.c around line 645
>
>         if ((vp->v_type == VBLK || vp->v_type == VCHR) &&
>             vp->v_specnode != NULL && vp->v_specnode->sn_opencnt != 0) {
> +               printf("dev %d, %d\n", major(vp->v_specnode->sn_rdev),
> +                   minor(vp->v_specnode->sn_rdev));
>                 vprint("vrelel: missing VOP_CLOSE()", vp);
>         }
>
> This should print the device (major, minor) missing a close.
>
> Which device?
> Always the same?

Thanks! The culprit was a wedge assigned to a partition with size 0 (I had  
set the partition type to "unknown" instead of "unused" when removing it).  
After properly deleting this partition and wedge, everything works as it  
should.