[922] in NetBSD-Development
Re: glacier crashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kohl)
Sun Jul 30 10:14:38 1995
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 10:12:15 -0400
From: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199507300724.DAA00303@glacier.MIT.EDU> (message from Greg Hudson
on Sun, 30 Jul 1995 03:24:49 -0400)
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
Greg> After building a kernel from our AFS tree a day or two ago, glacier
Greg> has been a bit unstable, crashing once or twice a day when I'm using
Greg> it. The last crash left a kernel syslog:
Greg> Jul 30 03:15:00 glacier vmunix: Data modified on freelist: word 0 of
Greg> object 0xf88ccf80 size 128 previous type free (0x0 != 0xdeadbeef)
That's something that was broken in the last month in the kernel;
nobody's found it for sure yet. I stopped having that problem at home
with my new machine once I added IPL_TTY into the IPL_NET imask (seemed
to help a lot for things like PPP).
==John
