In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9912291411160.20902-200000@team7.cba.ualr.edu>, Joe writes:
>
>I just made a fresh install and while extracting pkgsrc.tar.gz I get the
>following panic:
>
>mode = 010064, inum = 1349143, fs = /usr
>panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
>Stopped in tar at	Debugger+0x4:	ret	zero,(ra)
>db>
>
>Would anybody happen to know what kind of problem I am dealing with? I
>attached dmesg to show what kind of system it is. Prior to the panic I
>was getting soft errors pci-ide bus-master device ( going to fast for me
>to pick up exact message). I would appreciate any info or help. 

its a severe kernel error. the file systes finds a inode, and
notices it isn't free.  ffs_valloc is the fast file system
node allocator..

dup alloc means a inode is alloc'd twice... 
is this a toaster?  if not, can you manually fsck the system?

mts.