Panic in my HEAD

Sascha Wildner saw at online.de
Sat Nov 20 13:03:25 PST 2004


Matthew Dillon wrote:
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:Matthew Dillon wrote:
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:>     Shoot, oh well it was a long shot.  This sort of panic usually
:>     occurs long after the corruption has occured, and I was hoping that
:>     the contigmalloc fix I had made on Nov 10th had fixed the last 
:>     occurance of this sort of bug.  It definitely fixed something since
:>     DR's test machines are now a lot more stable.  So if the kernel you
:>     installed on this box is from sources dated before Nov 10th then the
:>     problem could be that contigmalloc bug, otherwise it's some other bug.
:
:Hehe, well shot, since I installed from dfly-20041025-current.iso.

    Ah.  Then I may be saved :-).  Definitely install the most recent HEAD,
    then do a manual fsck, and if the problem occurs again we will know
    that there are issues beyond the contigmalloc problem that still exist.
:>     If you can get a dump it may help, else try to get a dump the next
:>     time it happens.
:
:I have a dump. But for some strange reason, I can't get into leaf. :(
That is fixed now. Matt, you'll find the dump in /home/swildner on leaf.

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