From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 03:40:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B734316A41B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BEF13C442 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lAS3e276053262 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:02 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id lAS3e20P053261; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:02 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:02 GMT Message-Id: <200711280340.lAS3e20P053261@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Yuri Cc: Subject: Re: misc/118160: unable to mount / rw while booting 7.0-BETA3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Yuri List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:40:02 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/118160; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Yuri To: Bruce Evans Cc: Yuri , freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/118160: unable to mount / rw while booting 7.0-BETA3 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:11:52 -0800 > > While booting log says: > > Starting file system checks: > > > > mount: : Operation not permitted. > > This is probably a secondary problem. You apparently have the root device > mounted on "" or something like that. > What does mount shouw for the root device? > No, when I get to shell after this failure during the normal boot process mount shows: /dev/ad12s1c / (ufs,local,read-only) swapinfo shows that swap volume is /dev/ad12s1b > > The major bug seems to be in the 'mount' system call. 'man mount' says that > EPERM is returned if "The caller is neither the super-user nor the owner of > dir." I am root. > > You are apparently attempting to mount the same device twice (even though > -u specifies an already-mounted device, the kernel is apparently confused > about where it is mounted). > I thought that mount command is supposed to pick up the locations correctly, so that when I say 'mount -uw /' device should be picked up from the already mounted list. Also I found that swapon and mount are related in my case. Once swapon is done I can't remount root as r/w. And vice versa, when mount -uw is done swapon returns EPERM. This happens when I boot as single user. When I do swapon consecutive 'mount -uw ' fails. When I do 'mount -uw' consecutive swapon fails. So I don't have swap at all since this command failed during boot. I guess 'nmount' and 'swapon' system calls are similar and somehow interfere with each other. So I still can't boot normally, only through single user mode and I don't have swap at all after this. Yuri