Here is a panic on a 5-STABLE system. I was testing out a system (Dell PII 400MHz) my father retired. I thought heard some activity on the drive, so I ssh'd over to it then exited right away (time to leave for a movie :)). It panicked shortly afterward. Although it is on a different bus and probably not the cause: Dec 18 08:58:54 celt kernel: ata1-slave: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=1<ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> Just before panic: Dec 18 08:56:03 celt kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5336671 Dec 18 08:56:10 celt kernel: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Panic recovery: Dec 18 08:58:54 celt savecore: reboot after panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started Stack trace: GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. 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This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd". doadump () at pcpu.h:159 (kgdb) where #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:159 #1 0xc04ad01d in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:397 #2 0xc04ad2d9 in panic (fmt=0xc0640aca "initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started") at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:553 #3 0xc05b19b2 in initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2 (inodedep=0xc101d500, bp=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c:3772 #4 0xc05b1343 in softdep_disk_io_initiation (bp=0xc378b7f0) at /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c:3500 #5 0xc05b1270 in softdep_disk_prewrite (vp=0xc1059528, bp=0xc378b7f0) at buf.h:417 #6 0xc04ee7d4 in ibwrite (bp=0xc378b7f0) at buf.h:408 #7 0xc04ee38c in bwrite (bp=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c:771 #8 0xc04f0608 in vfs_bio_awrite (bp=0xc378b7f0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c:1721 #9 0xc04f806d in vop_stdfsync (ap=0xc7f0dce4) at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_default.c:574 #10 0xc04761e3 in spec_fsync (ap=0xc7f0dce4) at /usr/src/sys/fs/specfs/spec_vnops.c:437 #11 0xc047580f in spec_vnoperate (ap=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/fs/specfs/spec_vnops.c:118 #12 0xc04ff345 in sched_sync () at vnode_if.h:627 #13 0xc04983b9 in fork_exit (callout=0xc04fef84 <sched_sync>, arg=0x0, frame=0xc7f0dd48) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:811 #14 0xc060084c in fork_trampoline () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:209 (kgdb) where full #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:159 No locals. #1 0xc04ad01d in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:397 first_buf_printf = 1 #2 0xc04ad2d9 in panic (fmt=0xc0640aca "initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started") at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:553 td = (struct thread *) 0xc0f53c80 bootopt = 260 newpanic = 0 ap = 0xc0f53c80 "?!??p@??" buf = "initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started", '\0' <repeats 208 times> #3 0xc05b19b2 in initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2 (inodedep=0xc101d500, bp=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c:3772 adp = (struct allocdirect *) 0xc378b7f0 lastadp = (struct allocdirect *) 0x0 dp = (struct ufs2_dinode *) 0x72dc7000 fs = (struct fs *) 0x1000 i = (kgdb) quit /var/run/dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. 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FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Sun Nov 14 16:52:31 CST 2004 root@celt.farley.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CELT Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (398.27-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x651 Stepping = 1 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> real memory = 134217728 (128 MB) avail memory = 125870080 (120 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x8008-0x800b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x1420-0x142f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 7.2 (no driver attached) pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.3 (no driver attached) sis0: <NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xf4020000-0xf4020fff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 sis0: Silicon Revision: DP83815C miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto sis0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:7b:aa:8c pci0: <multimedia, video> at device 14.0 (no driver attached) pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 16.0 (no driver attached) atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: configured irq 0 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 0 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe4000-0xeffff,0xdc000-0xdffff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 ppc0: parallel port not found. sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sio4: <U.S.Robotics Inc. Sportster 56000 Voice Internal> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio4: type 16550A Timecounter "TSC" frequency 398270269 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 13783MB <IBM-DTTA-371440/T71OA70B> [28005/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ata1-slave: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=1<ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> acd0: DVDROM <HITACHI GD-2000/0056> at ata1-master PIO4 afd0: REMOVABLE <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/23.D> at ata1-slave BIOSPIO Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted /var: mount pending error: blocks 4 files 1 sis0: Applying short cable fix (reg=f0) Questions: 1. gdb -k is still in the man page. Is the feature pulled from gdb or should the man page have it removed? 2. Why can I not get a full backtrace (bt full)? Only the first three frames can be displayed that way. I can see all of the frames without the "full" option. Any ideas? Sean -- sean-freebsd@farley.org