[SunRescue] freeing free frag (?!?)

[Magnus Abrante]

I would start with an fsck -o f from singeluser mode of all the filesystems,
that should help in most cases.

	//Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */


> I have an SS20 running Solaris 2.7 with all "recommended and
> security" patches applied.  Over the last few days, I've had four
> random crashes which result in a kernel panic "freeing free frag"
> message.  The system halts, the error comes up in console mode,
> dumps core to /var/crash and then reboots.  When it comes up again,
> fsck finds errors, of course, but repairs them with no apparent
> problem.
> 
> Any clue as to what is going on?  This machine used to be perfectly
> stable, until one of the two Quantum (Sun OEM) 4gig drives died
> and I replaced it with a 9gig IBM drive (the usual dump/replace
> drive/ format/newfs routine) shortly before the random crashes
> started happening.
> 
> I'd be grateful for any advice/suggestions/etc.  Should I be looking
> for something specific in the crash dump files?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Scott
> 
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