SMP: Background fsck deadlocks CURRENT and RELENG_5 solid

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 10:58 am, Martin Blapp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently not able to reboot a paniced or unsincedy disk without
> doing a normal fsck. Just when the background fsck starts, the box
> locks solid. The load at this time is not significant.

You might have a corrupted fs from earlier panics.  Do a full fsck in single 
user mode and keep doing it until you have no errors (i.e., if it fixes 
anything run fsck again in a loop until you get no fixups at all).

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org