Subject: Re: Panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
To: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/17/1997 15:36:19
Have you tried running fsck -f on the filesystems after the
problem? (If you boot to multi user it will probably happen
anyway, but its always worth checking :)
David/abs abs@anim.dreamworks.com
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On Sat, 17 May 1997, Rick Byers wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm in the process of upgrading a 1.2/i386 machine to 1.2.1. While moving
> about a gig of data (users home dir's) over, I've gotten the following
> panic twice so far.
>
> block 4135
> Panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
>
> It then fails to sync the disks, but does do a core dump. I don't have
> debugging symbols compiled into the kernel, so gdb isn't much help. The
> only thing I noticed in gdb is that backtrace gives "cannot access memory
> at 0x0".
>
> Anyway, is this most likely a hardware problem or a netbsd bug? I'm
> hoping that it is a bug that is fixed in 1.2.1. What are the major
> changes in 1.2.1 anyway (still can't find a CHANGES file)?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
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