Subject: Re: Problem upgrading Sony VAIO PCG-F360 Laptop
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: Lets Go Canes! <LetsGoCanes@webmail.bellsouth.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/2000 16:19:03
Hi.

Thanks for the suggestions!

At Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:27:35 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
>| Starting syslogd.
>| Checking for core dump...
>| panic: getblk: block size invariant failed
>| Stopped in savecore at  cpu_Debugger+0x4:        leave
>| db> 
>| 
>| 
>| The system will boot into single-user mode.
>
>Filesystem corruption of some sort? Try running fsck -f on all
>your partitions from single user mode?


There really shouldn't be any filesystem corruption on
a brand new install!  Nonetheless, I will try the fsck
and see if it changes anything.

>It would be quite good to provide the stack trace from
>the panic, though. "t" at the ddb prompt. If onerous, you
>can skip the offsets and only provide the names.

I will give this a try as well.

>p.s. There's a certain irony associated with paniccing while
>trying to run savecore.

"She was pumping iron, I was pumping irony." - R. Plant.

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