kernel panic mounting /tmp - 6.2-PRERELEASE

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Tue Oct 17 21:12:01 UTC 2006


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:59:46 -0500
Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> > Is there a bigger issue here? anything I can do to help diagnose / debug
> > this?  
> 
> Possibly and no.  By recreating the file system you've destroyed
> the information needed to isolate the cause.  It's known that an
> appropriately corrupt file system can do this, but the causes (there are
> probably several) are not yet known.  There is some speculation that the
> only solution is to add checksums to all key data sections.
> 
> -- Brooks

Gotcha - i thought as much... i hoped a dump -0 would save enough info though.
I just needed to have /tmp back in place asap....

i'll keep the files around for a week or so in case something comes up.

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