panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc

[Robert Watson]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ronald Klop wrote:

> I'm getting this panic 'panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc'.  It happens on
> -CURRENT, since quite some time.  It happens when doing an rsync from a
> remote server to my secondary disk.  (ad2,master on ata1), there is no
> slave on this controller.  And it always happens, so it is very
> repeatable.  Is this probably a hardware failure? Or software? 

"dup alloc" tends to be a common symptom of races or other corruption
(improper zeroing of memory, etc).  One thing I might recommend doing, if
you haven't done it already, is to boot to single-user and do a manual
fsck of the drive experiencing the problem to help identify if on-disk
corruption is the source.  It might well be useful to log the results of
that fsck to a log file (perhaps in an md memory backed file system) to
include in a follow-up if there's anything interesting. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research


> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD henk.thuis.klop.ws 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #24: Mon Jun 14  
> 00:25:19 CEST 2004     root at henk.thuis.klop.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HENK   
> i386
> 
> A backtrace of the kernel core dump is in the attached gdb.txt.
> My dmesg is also attached.
> 
> Can I provide more info?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Ronald.
> 
> PS: Searched the archives and google, but didn't find anything usefull yet.
> 
> -- 
>   Ronald Klop
>   Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>