From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 13:01:46 2004 Return-Path: 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 48FA016A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:01:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81FB43D2D for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFD52BD7B for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:01:43 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F151C51225; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:31:41 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:31:41 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Message-ID: <20040329210141.GC15929@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <87k713ek7r.fsf@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k713ek7r.fsf@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My vinum scare X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:01:46 -0000 --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 9:39:20 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Yesterday, I updated my system from a 5.1-CURRENT build on 2004-01-29 to > recent source. All of my filesystems, except for root and swap, are on > vinum volumes for flexibility in management. After the 'installkernel' > step, I rebooted into single-user to make installworld and run mergemaster, > and this completed successfully. Then, I rebooted to bring the system back > online. > > That's when I discovered that vinum had totally lost all of its > configuration information, except for the name of the single drive ("wd120") > that I use. Following the instructions at > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html, I got: > > # < log tr -d '\000-\011\200-\377' > IN VINOkanga.honeypot.netwd120a>P.pMg@[obme>MBR > > This looks nothing like the label. Is this really exactly what you got? Were you using Vinum or the experimental GEOM implementation? > I have no idea what happened, but I ask that you trust me when I say > that I hadn't touched vinum at all during the system update. You could still look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and check on the information there. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAaI61IubykFB6QiMRAkavAJ9CYQFXDOq2hPWp3kbK8Sm5olagwACfd8Vc UZ9suqSSsQCS41Ib2erLsPM= =p9VU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb--