"Fatal double fault" panic

Gary Palmer gpalmer at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 22 12:46:38 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:53:14AM +0100, Micka?l Can?vet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a redundant NAS made of FreeBSD + HAST + ZFS and 24TB of disks.
> 
> This morning my primary node crashed around 4:20am.
> 
> On the console I can see:
> 
> Fatal double fault
> rip = 0xffffffff805e78b8
> rsp = 0xffffff8485d43fc0
> rbp = 0xffffff8485d44010
> cpuid = 1; apic id = 12
> panic: double fault
> cpuid = 1
> KDB: stack backstrace:
> #0 0xffffffff805f4e0e at kdb_backtrace+0x5e
> #1 0xffffffff805c2d07 at panic+0x187
> #2 0xffffffff808ac366 at dblfault_handler+0x96
> #3 0xffffffff808950bd at Xdblfault+0xad
> Uptime: 4d14h7m5s
> Cannot sump, Device not defined or unavailable.
> 
> The only thing I can see on my munin graphs is a strange IO activity
> (disk and network over my HAST link) that starts at 3am every morning
> and last about 1 hour and a half (and so until crash this morning). I
> double checked my scheduled scripts and I do not do anything at that
> time. So I suspect a system script to be responsible of this activity.
> I'm not sure that this IO activity results in the crash, but that the
> only track I have.

3am is when the scripts in /etc/periodic/daily fire

# grep daily /etc/crontab
# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily


Regards,

Gary


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