Re: Kernel panic - never had one before, what do I do?

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:24:44AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 March 2003 at 13:35:28 +0000, Jason Morgan wrote:
> > I just got a panic. As I have never had one before, I don't know what to
> > do. It's on another system so I don't have to reboot immediately (that
> > would solve the problem temporarily, wouldn't it?) if someone would give
> > me some advice, I could try to help debug it; however, as I'm not a
> > coder (not a real one anyway), I don't know how much help I would be.
> >
> > It's a 5.0-CURRENT system, just installed and built last week. It
> > paniced right after doing a source update (not a build, just cvsup).
> > The panic error is as follows:
> >
> > panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex vnode interlock _at_
> > /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:3187
> 
> Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/texts/panic.txt or
> http://www.lemis.com/texts/panic.pdf and tell me if that helps.  This
> will be going into the new edition of "The Complete FreeBSD" in a few
> days time, so I'm interested in getting something which is helpful.

Thanks. It has been a lot of help and I do think it is of value. Heck, I
may even get a copy of "The Complete FreeBSD".

Thanks again. 

Jason


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