In article <20030728170854.040F37C92@berkshire.research.att.com>,
Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
>A 1.6.1 machine of mine has suddenly started crashing, for no apparent 
>reason.  For the last crash, I deliberately left it not running X, so 
>I could see any messages:
>
>/tmp: got error 5 while accessing file system
>panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: unrecovered I/O error

Hmm, 5 = EIO, I see a few places in sd.c where EIO is returned but
does not make a lot of sense to me. I'd add some printf's and see
which one is causing it.

christos