[PANIC] ufs_dirbad: bad dir

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:06:15PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:08:08AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:29:52AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Anyone own this one?
> > > The running kernel was:
> > >     FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #528: Sun Sep 25 21:07:22 PDT 2005
> > ... 
> > > panic messages:
> > > panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir
> > 
> > Just got another one - uptime was about 10 minutes.  Is one of the recent
> > changes to SU & FFS making this situation easier to trigger?
> 
> As I've mentioned the last few times you reported this, it's a
> long-standing bug that has existed since the FreeBSD 4.x days or
> before.

I know you mentioned this. :-)  However the rate of my tripping over it
has increased to every few days.

> Try to fsck -f your filesystems to make sure there is no
> lingering damage.

I've turned off SU on all my partitions.  I also do periodically boot
single user and 'fsck -y /<fs>'.  We still definitely have at least one
serious UFS bug in the weeds.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)