Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires said:

>The system is 1.5P, with sources of 2000/12/24.  I systematically get
>kernel panics (as shown below) triggered by nfsd.  Usually, this happens
>when the NFS client is running Netscape Mail, during reindexing or
>compacting of a message folder.

I did see something strange with 1.5O or 1.5P on i386.

No softdep or NFS involved.

Netscape started up okay, but if I went into Netscape mail/news,
the window would never come up and the disks would thrash forever.

Whatever the problem was, it was fixed in a later update to 1.5P,
and everything seems to work in 1.5Q.
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