From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 04:18:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00601065670 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF078FC13 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so322033eyh.18 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=o3WvPNSnobqg47RLt+3OCaSWQ6C12FiV6qXzaTAJIf4=; b=CVYtP8nz0NjzhO37ok4HS46pA/IjZWpKxEqng9MMGMsaB/3je/R3hlet9IYHgsDSJp EiKELsoHgypdRur67571XYKM+pnQb1TZb1G+T51H1NlYl4dt8RXn/eWdfOkcVvcYeyVT yVPj2PvwG447nXAQHvoQFZiZFz1/se/ZRz7wI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=rgDvTGrRvZmrDP7gLwVdO+lotoqMOYl62l+FCgoB5zYnoQhufP6QCdvn+NkLQLdUwL +4oK4v6xZztHbyOr1bwYBcfPunBShjXt7QtjtXLNuzUmebmslp2M0FLV9zQZtghfUBHa C7eXYIwT6BTAQq+V7bvWx5hrJTyfEcdU2Pxj8= Received: by 10.210.56.2 with SMTP id e2mr1585617eba.42.1244865028305; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darklight.homeunix.org ([85.175.158.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm808841eya.49.2009.06.12.20.50.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darklight.homeunix.org (darklight.homeunix.org [127.0.0.1]) by darklight.homeunix.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5D3oNSZ016462; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:50:24 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.homeunix.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5D3oNVG016461; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:50:23 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.homeunix.org: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:50:23 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20090613035023.GB1227@darklight.homeunix.org> References: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net> <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> <200906120832.51098.jhb@freebsd.org> <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net> <20090613032442.GA24933@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090613032442.GA24933@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: Dan Allen , "Paul B. Mahol" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:18:38 -0000 On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:24:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > >On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: > > >>Isn't boot part of the kernel build? Why would installing the kernel > > >>not cause this problem? > > > > > >No, sys/boot is built during world. Likely some change in /boot/ > > >loader is > > >causing your problem. Can you narrow it down to a specific change > > >under > > >sys/boot? > > > > Ok. I updated just the one file since it appeared like one of the few > > changed files > > > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > > > > and rebuilt things with > > > > cd /usr/src/sys/boot; make cleandir obj depend all install > > > > and it was okay. No problems. > > > > Then I did sync'd all of the changed files for /usr/src/sys/boot and > > my machine is hung again at boot, so we have narrowed it down to > > somewhere in /usr/src/sys/boot/. > > > > Time to reinstall from a DVD and try it with finer granularity. This > > will take some time. > > > > There appears to be only four files that have changed in /usr/src/sys/ > > boot from June 8th (all working fine) to June 11th (dead in the > > water). They are: > > > > /usr/src/sys/boot/Makefile > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile > > > > I have ruled out bisodisk.c, as stated above. > > > > That means that the Makefiles are building new stuff that previously > > was not built, namely > > > > zfsboot gptzfsboot > > > > I believe it has to do with that. More help is needed! I am tired of > > reinstalling the OS, but I am much more paranoid about updating my > > other machine in any way now, as it could erase that whole machine. I > > can't believe I am the only one seeing this... > > > > Dan > > > > Whew!! i'm giving thanks to every saint, god and daemon known. i > rebuilt my kernel in very recent days (7.2) on my ancient > 500MHz kayak, but did not go further. So still runing on the 7.0 > kernel. > > Will someone send up a flare when it's *safe*? > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php > The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php How do you know it isn't safe? Noone hasn't provided any useful info (debug, revisions where it works and where it doesn't). Yuri