I am having some rather unusual problems here, and I am looking for a
little help.

The machine:

Mac IIci 20 meg RAM, 30 meg MacOS partition, 700 meg BSD partition, 50 meg swap.
Internal video, asante ether card, I have a cache card, but its been out
since the second crash, and that hasn't stoped things.
Running system  7.1, booter 1.9. Very few inits, off hand macbugs and the
iomega zip init are the only two I can think I can think of. This is a tiny
macos partiton just big enough to boot NetBSD, and let me use the zip to do
installations.  Anything else I need, and I mount other drives over
ethertalk.


Problem description:

I am using the 1.2 tarballs and kernel, under NetBSD I usually get a kernel
crash after a day to a day and a half of running. (time is not definite, it
doesn't crash immediately on startup, but if I boot, let it alone and come
back in a couple of days, its almost always down.)

I get 2 error lines like:

cleaned vnode type VBAD use: 0 write: 0 ref: 0
tag VT_VFS

by the time I get to the machine, it is hung dead and I can't do any debugging.

Has anyone else seen this?

I have been trying to make a new kernel thinking that this is a bug that
has probably been fixed.  I can sup and build a GENERIC kernel, but when I
set up the booter for my new kernel, the booter crashes into macbugs after
starting to load the kernel, but before the dialog comes up that allows you
to view the booter debugging output.

This machine was solid as a rock using a custom kernel under 1.1+ and the
only thing I think I have changed is from 1.1 to 1.2, I have even done a
complete reinstall to no avail, It is getting to the point where I am read
to reformat and start over from scratch.

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Christopher R. Bowman
crb@eng.umd.edu
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