/dev permissions after reboot (and panic)

Peter Avalos pavalos at theshell.com
Sat Jul 16 22:11:30 PDT 2005


On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 09:52:33PM -0700, Peter Avalos wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:23:11PM -0700, Peter Avalos wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:05:24PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > 
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> > > :So every time I reboot, I get a panic (I believe someone else may
> > > :be having this problem too).  I've included a capture of the ddb
> > > :session at the bottom.  Unfortunately, I can't get a core dump.
> > > :But, what really sucks, is if I did a 'MAKEDEV all', permissions
> > > :in /dev get hosed when the machine comes back up.  MAKEDEV is doing
> > > :the right thing, because I've checked to make sure the devices
> > > :have the correct permissions.  When the machine comes back up,
> > > :things like null, zero, tty, lose their write permissions, which
> > > :hoses things up.
> > > :
> > 
> > >     Which patch set is this with?  The m_nextpkt != NULL is a warning
> > >     rather a panic, but the patch set I sent today should have fixed that.
> > >     The actual panic is occuring due to the buffers not being flushable, 
> > >     which sounds like a softupdates issue so if the sync commands don't
> > >     fix the problem (or even if they do).  See if turning off softupdates 
> > >     fixes the problem (which will tell me where to look).
> > > 
> > 
> > That was with no patches...just straight-up HEAD.  I'm compiling up a
> > new kernel with the SOCKBUF_DEBUG patchset right now, and I'll see if
> > that warning goes away.  I'll also try turning off softupdates and see
> > what happens.
> > 
> 
> I applied the SOCKBUF_DEBUG patch and rebooted.  After the machine came up,
> I tried a MAKEDEV, sync, waited about a mintue, then rebooted.  I then got
> this panic:
> 
> panic: assertion: sb->sb_mb == m in sbunlinkmbuf
> mp_lock = 00000000; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 00000000
> boot() called on cpu#0
> Uptime: 3m22s
> 
> Matt, as you know my remote console really sucks, so I wasn't able to
> get everything, but I did get a sucessfuly dump.  That's uploading to
> leaf right now (*.12).
> 
> Hopefully it's useful.
> 
> --Peter

I forgot to mention that /dev permissions were screwed up as well.

--Peter
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