Subject: Re: Panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
To: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/17/1997 15:36:19
	Have you tried running fsck -f on the filesystems after the
	problem? (If you boot to multi user it will probably happen
	anyway, but its always worth checking :)

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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`------ been the worse for wear ------'-- and still I'll drink some more --'

On Sat, 17 May 1997, Rick Byers wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm in the process of upgrading a 1.2/i386 machine to 1.2.1.  While moving
> about a gig of data (users home dir's) over, I've gotten the following
> panic twice so far.
> 
> block 4135
> Panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
> 
> It then fails to sync the disks, but does do a core dump.  I don't have
> debugging symbols compiled into the kernel, so gdb isn't much help.  The
> only thing I noticed in gdb is that backtrace gives "cannot access memory
> at 0x0".  
> 
> Anyway, is this most likely a hardware problem or a netbsd bug?  I'm
> hoping that it is a bug that is fixed in 1.2.1.  What are the major
> changes in 1.2.1 anyway (still can't find a CHANGES file)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Rick
> 
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