panic: vn_rele

[Alan M. Brown]

In article <8904111537.AA06180 at courageous.ecn.purdue.edu>, mckay at courageous.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D. McKay) writes:
> After calling the infamous Sun Hotline 4 times without any response, [...]
> [...]
> 	Periodically, (about once a week on a 4/280, less often on
> 3/XXX) we experience the following panic:
> 
> [orchestra]panic: vn_rele
> [orchestra]syncing file systems... panic: vn_rele
> [...]
> 	* Is there a fix for it?  (I don't believe Sun has one as I
> *have* been called back by the Hotline folks when they have a fix for
> something)
> [...]

Way back in November I experienced multiple panics of two types:
	panic: vn_rele		(Sun service order #234504)
	panic: diskquota	(Sun service order #232522)
Sun claimed they were both related to a quota problem, and supplied me with
two patches: quota.o and spec_subr.o.  The engineer who supplied the patches
was Kevin Fox.

Very, very, Very, VERY, V*E*R*Y seldom has Sun resolved one of our
problems in a timely fashon.  I opened this problem on November 3 and
closed it on January 25.  BUT - the fix did resolve our problem, and they
were nice about it.


Alan M. Brown					Systems Support Specialist
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