From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 8:47:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E1E37B404 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD8E43EA9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gATGlA9i039572 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:47:11 -0800 (PST)?g (envelope-from sam@errno.com)œ X-Authentication-Warning: ebb.errno.com: Host melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82] claimed to be melange Message-ID: <0b7b01c297c6$f673acd0$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler" To: "Wesley Morgan" , References: <20021129093417.V7358-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> Subject: Re: Harry Potter and the Disappearing Disklabel Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:47:10 -0800 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yesterday morning I was having some trouble with XFree consuming much more > cpu time than necessary... A truss showed that some kind of shared memory > issue going on, but also froze my system hard. After rebooting (kernel was > from Nov 26 or 27) fsck could not check my one dirty UFS2 partition. Had > to newfs and mtree to recreate /var. No big deal, and I saved an image of > it beforehand. > > After rebooting, there was... NOTHING. GRUB errored out and wouldn't boot. > Nothing could see my partitions. After a minimal 4.7-R install (DP2 > disklabel whined about offsets and some other STRANGE error messages, > so I went with 4.7) on a small fat32 partition, I discovered that the > disklabel was empty. Had to edit it by hand... Booted up fine, made > a backup, rebooted, and nothing. Not only was there NOTHING, but the > disklabel on the new 4.7 install had vanished as well. This time the > disklabel had to be recreated with -w -r AND the boot blocks had to be > reinstalled. > > I've seen one post similar to this, but not much else. I think maybe the > UFS2 problem had to do with Kirk's recent changes, but the disklabel > issue... I'm wary to reboot my machine! What in the hell could be causing > this? I'm tempted to point the finger at GEOM, but hate to say anything > like that. Same problem hit me yesterday. Haven't figured out the cause yet. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message