> Has anyone been able to use xhfs lately?  I used to use it, but
> ever since I upgraded to NetBSD-1.2 (and this week 1.2.1), I
> get a kernel panic every time I try to use xhfs.  This happens
> with hfsutils-2.0 and whatever the prev. version was.  

Hmmm...I was just about to say that I've had no trouble doing it, but I 
tried a few seconds ago and received the first panic I've had in months 
:-(  Anyway, the probably appeared to be in the vm code, just after 
vm_object_collapse() or something like that...

>Any ideas
> why and how to make it not do that?  Actually, I've noticed that
> if I try to do something illegal to the file system I get a kernel
> panic.  For example, I just added a 20 Mb (yes, 20) external drive
> for backing up some critical files.  When I was setting it up, I
> incorrectly tried
> newfs /dev/sd2c
> and that caused a kernel panic every time until I realized I wanted
> newfs /dev/sd2g

I don't quite know why it would do that, but you might consider changing 
to an sbc-based SCSI driver.  Perhaps it will solve your problem (of 
course I'm using the SBC driver now, and I just got a panic...

> Do I just have a problem in my setup or are others experiencing this too?

It depends on what caused the panic on your machine...

> I have a mac IIci and I am using the binary distribution with the generic
> kernel that came with it.  When I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2 and then 1.2.1 I
> did not touch anything in /etc.  Could this be a problem?

That's probably not the reason for the problem.  Nothing in /etc should 
cause a panic, even if it's a bit misconfigured (I think)...I'm running 
-current from around February, myself.

> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Dan

About the only thing that might be useful from this point is for you to 
type up the printout from the debugger that occurs when you type 'trace' 
at the 'db>' prompt.

Rats...I hate it when this happens...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX