Why does my machine give a panic?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:36:47PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote:
> I used to use freebsd4.X. I didn't have any problem about it. After I
> reinstalled freebsd6.1 my server has started to given a panic. I am sure
> that the server's hardware is good.  I ran kgdb on the server as below;
> 
> # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0
> [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so:
> Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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> 
> Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
> dev = amrd0s1e, block = 1008936, fs = /var
> panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
> cpuid = 1
> Uptime: 1d18h28m28s
> Dumping 1023 MB (2 chunks)
>   chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok
>   chunk 1: 1023MB (261886 pages) 1008 992 976 960 944 928 912 896 880 864
> 848 832 816 800 784 768 752 736 720 704 688 672 656 640 624 608 592 576 560
> 544 528 512 496 480 464 448 432 416 400 384 368 352 336 320 304 288 272 256
> 240 224 208 192 176 160 144 128 112 96 80 64 48 32 16
> 
> #0  doadump () at pcpu.h:165
> 165             __asm __volatile("movl %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (td));
> 
> 
> How to get rid off that ?

1) fsck the filesystem in case you have lingering corruption that was
not detected before.

2) update to 6.2

3) if it still persists, then follow the directions in the developers
handbook chapter on kernel debugging, and file a PR.

Kris
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