panic: rele: negative ref count

Johan Ström johan at stromnet.se
Sun Dec 30 07:06:47 PST 2007


Just got this on a 7-beta4 machine when i did a reboot:

..
Dec 30 15:55:34 back-1 reboot: rebooted by johan
Dec 30 15:55:34 back-1 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
panic: vrele: negative ref count
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 14d23h
Physical Memory: 2024Mb
Dumping 1591 MB: ........
Dump complete
Automatic reboot...balba

On next boot:

Checking for core dump on /dev/mirror/gm1b...
savecore: first and last dump headers disagree on /dev/mirror/gm1b
savecore: unsaved dumps found but not saved
Dec 30 15:57:51 back-1 savecore: first and last dump headers disagree  
on /dev/mirror/gm1b

with savecore -f i managed to dump a vmcore.0..

back-1 /var/crash$ kgdb /boot/kernel.old/kernel vmcore.0
kgdb: kvm_read: invalid address (0x406a00)
[GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/ 
libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd".
Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffff80a7cd70
(kgdb) where
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Cannot access memory at address 0x0

Not very usefull..? Yes kernel.old since I just rebuilt with -RC1,  
hence the reboot.


Clues?
--
Johan Ström
Stromnet
johan at stromnet.se
http://www.stromnet.se/




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