It seems that you had a UFS root file system problem on the Conner hard drive.
The above "panic: vn_rele" message occurrs when the A/UX UFS file system tries to do a vn_rele function (release a vnode and decrement the reference count) to maintain its file system data structure. Panic occurs when the reference count reaches to 0. Both the "free freeing free block" and "ialloc_dup alloc" panic messages indicate that there is a bad free-block list and duplicate inode allocations in the UFS super block.
We don't know the parameters used when the UFS root file system was created on the Conner drive. These parameters (like the number of sectors, tracks, and cylinders) must be specific to the Conner drive.
If the parameters used to create a UFS file system do not match the drive, we suggest that you rebuild the UFS file system with the correct values. Otherwise, try to "fsck" the root file system (you can do the "fsck" in #startup mode) to make a clean root file system.
We haven't seen the menu bar squeezed problem on our third-party monitor while A/UX is booting. Check with the vendor about this problem. Yes, A/UX does a reset on the monitor card when the A/UX kernel is loaded.
Article Change History:
22 Sep 1994 - Reviewed.
31 Aug 1992 - Reviewed.
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