Re: amd64-7.99.29 - Another kernel panic - ffs?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 29 May 2016, Robert Swindells wrote:

> Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Well, today I just had another crash, this time in ffs_newvnode().  The
> > traceback (manually transcribed) is:
>
> [snip]
>
> Was the panic message "ffs_init_vnode: dup alloc" ?

I missed copying down the panic message, but the backtrace seems to 
think we were in the printf() calls leading up to that panic message.

> I had this on a filesystem a couple of months ago, I was using wapbl
> but didn't have QUOTA or QUOTA2 in the kernel, I confess I just copied
> everything off and ran newfs(8) on it.

Well the only thing that seems to have been trashed is one subdirectory 
which was being cvs updated, and that is easily recovered.  So, no loss 
of data, just the inconvenience of having to reboot and clean up.

> There has also been a fairly recent report of it happening when
> installing NetBSD/hpcarm [1].
>
> [1] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hpcarm/2016/02/27/msg000196.html

Hmmm.  Sevan opened PR port-hpcarm/50840 but perhaps we should 
recategorize the PR?



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