syncing failed on shutdown: giving up on 1 buffer

[Tim Legant]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:18 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> Raphael Marmier wrote:

> :After which, I /sbin/reboot:
> :
> :# /sbin/reboot
> :boot() called on cpu#1
> :Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread vnlru to stop...stopped
> :Waiting [...] bufdaemon to stop...stopped
> :Waiting [...] syncer to stop...stopped
> :
> :syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> :giving up on 1 buffers
> :Debugger("busy buffer problem")

>     We get reports of this occuring occassionally on SMP system and we
>     haven't quite figured out the cause yet.  If this is repeatable on
>     your system and you can get a kernel core out of it that would be 
>     helpful (make sure you are compiling up debug kernels, which we have
>     a default in GENERIC so you should be unless you removed the makeoptions
>     line for it).

It's (mostly) repeatable and, since no one else seems to have replied,
here's a link to a core and dmesg.

http://www.catseye.net/~thl/DragonFly/

Also, I have no idea if this will help but...  The following text is
what showed up on the console as the core dump ended.

6 5 4 3 2 1 0 error2 0
succeeded
LWKT_WAIT_IPQ WARNING! 1 wait 0 (-6)
panic: LWKT_WAIT_IPQ
mp_lock = 00000001; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 00000000
boot() called on cpu#1
Uptime: 2m7s
Dump already in progress, bailing...
LWKT_WAIT_IPQ WARNING! 1 wait 0 (-7)
panic: LWKT_WAIT_IPQ
mp_lock = 00000001; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 00000000
boot() called on cpu#1
Uptime: 2m7s
Dump already in progress, bailing...
LWKT_WAIT_IPQ WARNING! 1 wait 0 (-8)
panic: LWKT_WAIT_IPQ
mp_lock = 00000001; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 00000000
boot() called on cpu#1
Uptime: 2m7s
Dump already in progress, bailing...

If you need anything else from me, up to and including ssh access, just
let me know.


Tim