[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3

[Jonathan Z. Simon]

I got a single vnreclaim panic on my Panther G4 which has openAFS 
1.2.10  but no retrospect:
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Thu Jan 29 18:41:37 2004


panic(cpu 0): vnreclaim: v_usecount
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
       Backtrace:
          0x000833B8 0x0008389C 0x0001ED8C 0x000C2CF8 0x000BFA78 
0x001CF90C 0x001CF53C 0x001D5704
          0x001D5DF8 0x000BDA3C 0x000BD484 0x000CCE6C 0x000C58C0 
0x0023DD24 0x00093D20 0xA00011CC
Proceeding back via exception chain:
    Exception state (sv=0x1A6E3500)
       PC=0x9000E98C; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x0034C084; DSISR=0x0A000000; 
LR=0x901BE0F0; R1=0xF002D9B0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.2.0:
Thu Dec 11 16:20:23 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC


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For what it's worth it was running Internet Explorer as the frontmost 
application. But all home directories are local, and nothing local 
depends on afs.

Jonathan


>>> Until this thread, I've been leaning towards Retrospect: I've 
>>> correlated the "vnreclaim" panics with unattended backups overnight. 
>>>  What I've discovered is that, backing up to an external FireWire 
>>> drive, I could reproduce a panic if the disk was full- i.e. no room 
>>> for Retrospect's catalog information. I've forwarded the panic logs 
>>> and my "diary" to both Apple and Dantz, but, as you might guess, 
>>> they both told me to go away.   Then again, perhaps both afs and 
>>> Retrospect are tweaking a Panther end case ...
>

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