From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 11:21:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7CE16A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morpheus.mind.net (morpheus.mind.net [69.9.130.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BB243F85 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox@morpheus.mind.net) Received: from morpheus.mind.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by morpheus.mind.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8NILnx0079901 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox@morpheus.mind.net) Received: (from jfox@localhost) by morpheus.mind.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h8NILnqO079900 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:49 -0700 From: John Fox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030923182149.GK53128@mind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Quip: Fly the white flag of war! Subject: vinum crashed disk error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:21:50 -0000 Hello, Three IDE drives multiplexed together to make one large "partition" (for mounting as /usr/local). We were messing with hardware in the box and when we rebooted vinum spat out errors about defective objects and the boot came to a halt. We figured we had left something loose or unplugged on the motherboard, so we shut it down and took a look. Sure enough, the plug in the mobo's secondary IDE channel was loose, so we reseated it and powered the machine up again. We saw that the kernel found all the IDE drives and figured the problem was over. But vinum had the same problem. It said (loose quotation): "/dev/ mounted read-only. vinum config not being rebuilt". And then spit out the same errors it had the first time. Unfortunately, the vinum.org domain is having problems of some sort, and the vinum help pages on lemis.com are redirected to the vinum.org site, so I am deprived of a great trouble-shooting resource. System is 4.8-STABLE. Below you will see the output of 'vinum start'. Any suggestions as to fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated, as we do make production use of this box. Thank you in advance for any words you may be able to offer. -John output of 'vinum start': ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Warning: defective objects V bigdisk State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 23 GB P big_plex C State: faulty Subdisks: 3 Size: 23 GB S drive0 State: down PO: 0 B Size: 8063 MB S drive2 State: crashed PO: 8063 MB Size: 8063 MB S drive3 State: crashed PO: 15 GB Size: 8063 MB ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | John Fox | System Administrator | InfoStructure | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Gideon: I thought you said don't hold a grudge. | | Galen: I don't. I have no surviving enemies...at all. | | -- "Crusdade", _Racing the Night_ | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+