"Data modified on freelist"?
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-stable-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Wed Jan 12 10:52:13 PST 2005
Rich Wales <richw at richw.org> writes:
> I'm running 4-STABLE / 4.11-PRERELEASE (CVS tag=RELENG_4), dated 2004-
> 12-10, on an AMD Athlon system at home.
>
> Last night, I got the following message from the kernel:
>
> Data modified on freelist: word 14 of object 0xc2aff700
> size 256 previous type FFS node (0xdeadc09e != 0xdeadc0de)
>
> What does this mean? Is it a reason for me to worry? Any ideas on
> what might have caused it or what I should do about it?
That's a single bit flipped.
Assuming you don't have error-correcting memory, it could be
anything, including a stray cosmic ray...
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