Stable panic on shutdown: swapoff: failed to locate N swap blocks

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 15 14:43:58 PDT 2004


On 15 Oct, David Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> N of blocks can be different.
>> Can't provide full debugging trace yet, excepting this one:
> 
> The traceback won't be very helpful in this case because this most
> likely indicates a swap leak that happened some time earlier.
> What *would* be helpful is more information about your swap
> devices, any steps you need to take while the system is running to
> reproduce this, the approximate size of N, etc.

I think a mounted filesystem on a swap-backed md device is likely to
cause this problem.



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