Subject: Re: Ummm...
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/11/2005 08:37:25
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:33:17AM -0700, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >which branch is this kernel from?
>
> netbsd-2.
ok, same as all your other weird panics.
> While at first it didn't occur to me, it seems it may be a filesystem
> corruption issue. I had rearranged partitions on one of the drives before
> the move (unmounted, swapoff'd, disklabeled, newfs'd, swapon'd, mounted),
> but I'm wondering if the in-kernel disklabel didn't get updated, so the
> newfs went about its business on the wrong part of the disk and the
> filesystem shared space with the swap. It hasn't happened since I
> unmounted that filesystem and removed that swap device.
>
> The only other change is that the total amount of swap went from 1.5 gigs
> to 2 gigs (on a system that has 2 gigs of memory). But I've done 2+2 gigs
> before.
I can't think of any way that either of those changes would cause this
kind of memory corruption, so I really doubt those are related.
-Chuck