there is something very flaky with your filesystem. This coudl be due to
the device, due to the controller, due to the bus interface, the bus, the
bus adapter, bad memory, who knows! could be a bug in the filesystem code,
but i doubt it. i dont know of any recent changes to that stuff and it's
worked for ages. of course, i dont follow -current or anything so i dont
know exactly whats new. can you reproduce this on a different machine, 
or at least with different disk/controller and/or memory? it has nothing
to do with tar. 

isildur

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Joe wrote:

> I just made a fresh install and while extracting pkgsrc.tar.gz I get the
> following panic:
> 
> mode = 010064, inum = 1349143, fs = /usr
> panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
> Stopped in tar at	Debugger+0x4:	ret	zero,(ra)
> db>
> 
> Would anybody happen to know what kind of problem I am dealing with? I
> attached dmesg to show what kind of system it is. Prior to the panic I
> was getting soft errors pci-ide bus-master device ( going to fast for me
> to pick up exact message). I would appreciate any info or help. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Joe
>