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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bionode : buffer already done
Date: 3 Aug 1996 19:28:13 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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padamo@aol.com (PAdamo) wrote:
> Hi, I am running Free BSD ver 2.1 on a pentium 90 Mhz as a news server. I
> recently started getting a continuous "bionode : buffer already done"
biodone: (btw.)
> error messages, which locks up the computer. I am wondering if anybody
> ever got an error message like this and how they resolved it.
That's a strong indication of some kernel bug. If you get i
repeatedly (and i even suggest upgrading to 2.1.5), your only chance
it to convert this condition into a panic() and analyze the core dump
(or use DDB).
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)