/dev/null panic still alive

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3ECE7358.4060608 at tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <3ECE647B.1030705 at tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>And well. Funny. Something in my daily (or so it seems) caused the 
>>>panic. After which the lockmgr panic attacked. :-( Anyway, core dump for 
>>>the /dev/null:
>> 
>> 
>> This is an attempt to fiddle an EA on a VCHR vnode backed by UFS/FFS.
>> 
>> I currently have no idea how to fix this without doing things to the
>> buffer cache which are not kosher at this time or at all.
>
>/me shrugs
>
>It's just that having a computer with mac enabled panic each time daily 
>is run is kinda bad.

Somewhere, probably under /compat/linux/dev you have some device nodes
on a UFS filesystem.  You shouldn't need those (I think ?) and they
are likely the cause of this.

Kirk's on vacation and I havn't heard back from rwatson what he think
we should do.

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