panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: unrecovered I/O error

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 12:46:21 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:49 PM,  <dt71 at gmx.com> wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev wrote, On 10/23/2013 06:26:
>
>> panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: unrecovered I/O error
>
>
> I've seen similar panics relatively often in the last few months, but I
> deemed them to be the cause of worn IDE cables and old (>10 year old) hard
> drives.
>
> In fact, I have a core dump (which I apparently forgot to remove -- it's
> probably useless anyway) with the following panic string:
>
>   softdep_deallocate_dependencies: dangling deps
>

I had similar problems on a stable/10 10.0-BETA1 system that was
running as a guest on VirtualBox. I switched the system to real
hardware and the problems went away immediately. Now I have two
different i386 stable/10 systems running on real hardware, neither has
had any crashing problems so far.

-Kimmo


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