7.1 panic "vm_page_startup: inconsistent page counts"

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 12 06:58:54 PDT 2009


On Thursday 12 March 2009 12:36:46 am Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade an 11 month old FreeBSD 7 image in a VMware
> 4.5.2 guest to an up-to-date -stable and it panics as above.  I've
> added a printf to report the two counts and there's a difference of
> one page.  I don't have any problems with the old 7-stable image or
> up-to-date 6-stable or -current using the same VMware version.
> 
> A screendump for a verbose boot can be found at
> http://imagebin.ca/img/wahNNw.gif
> 
> Can I safely delete the assert?

I don't think so, I would report it to Alan.  The one earlier report of this 
didn't include the detail that it was only off by one page.

-- 
John Baldwin


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