Friday, October 11, 2024

Re: Crash when cold booting

On 10/11/24 12:26, Joe B wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today i booted into openbsd and got this https://0x0.st/X6aV.jpg <https://0x0.st/X6aV.jpg> I don't know where to start and what to do.. IRC advised to file a report but i was wondering if anyone here can tell me what it is ?
>
> I rebooted and everything was working fine.. just curious to see what pepole have to say.
>

It works much better if you type a few things from the message
to get the right people's attention, THEN give them a link to
the photograph.

The panic message is pretty suggestive.
"panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc"
ffs often means "Fast File System", the standard BSD file system.

Combine that with shortly above, there is fsck activity, hinting
at an "abrupt" shutdown.

(hmmm. Rapid Unscheduled System Termination? RUST?
Nice name overlap with the current "Will definitely replace C this
time!" language, so perfect to add confusion to the computer world.)

So...my guess is you got had an event causing a hard shutdown, the
file systems were left in an unclean state, and the first pass of
boot fsck's didn't quite catch everything.

The good news is, the panic resulted in another fsck at boot, and
this time, it caught whatever it puked over last time.

Nick.

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