panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block

[Tim Robbins]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:31:51AM -0500, Don Bowman wrote:

> periodically (once a day or so), i'm getting a panic
> as 'panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block'. 
[...]
> Suggestions on what I should look for or try?

Dropping to single user mode & forcing a fsck (with the -f option) should
fix this. It's a symptom of some kind of filesystem inconsistency
that soft updates isn't expecting, and that background fsck isn't trying
to detect or repair.


Tim