From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 09:20:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0FA106568B for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:20:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F08C8FC12 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NViLc-0005b8-2P for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:20:04 +0100 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:20:04 +0100 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:17:48 +0100 Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <20100103013537.GK3508@acme.spoerlein.net> <4B40E7B6.8040500@acm.poly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100113 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:20:07 -0000 martinko wrote: > Boris Kochergin wrote: >> martinko wrote: >>> Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >>>> On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 18:47:27 +0100, martinko wrote: >>>>> Hi list, >>>>> >>>>> gstat(8) does not work here on 8.0 (it worked happily on 6.x and >>>>> 7.x) : >>>>> >>>>> # gstat >>>>> gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory >>>>> >>>>> Is this known ? What can I do ? >>>> >>>> I doubt that it is widely known, but I've seen these 2-3 times before >>>> when fussing around with USB media and/or md(4) devices with gmirror on >>>> top. Basically, if you get really creative with the geom layering, this >>>> is likely to happen. >>>> >>>> It sure is a bug, but without a good way to reproduce, noone's gonna >>>> fix >>>> it. >>> >>> Well, it is definitely reproducible here -- I cannot run gstat(8). >>> >>> Apart from mouse I have no USB devices connected. >>> >>> I use tmpmfs="YES" in rc.conf but I do not use gmirror nor any other >>> creative GEOM layering. >>> >>> If someone's willing to investigate -- what info should I provide ? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Martin >> I believe geom_gettree() gets its information from the kern.geom.confxml >> sysctl. With that said, can you put the output of the following command >> somewhere? >> >> sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml > > Yes, you're right and now I think I know what may cause this bug and it > worries me even more -- my FAT32 partition has a funny name but it for > sure was not like this before: > > $ ll /dev/msdosfs/ > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 95 Jan 3 09:28 FREEDOS > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 103 Jan 3 09:28 01wb? > > Here's the complete output you asked for: > http://mato.gamato.org/freebsd/aw1n/kern.geom.confxml-8.0 > > Cheers, > > Martin > > PS: I've just read about some msdosfs issues and I'm very much worried > that my partition data might be corrupted. :-/ > Please note that yesterday I booted Windows and the disk label shows correctly there -- now I have no idea why geom reports garbage. (!?) BR, M:(