From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 30 16:53:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15733 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15728 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:53:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA10711; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:23:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id LAA57889; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:23:41 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:23:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jake Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically? Message-ID: <19990131112340.M8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990131093951.G8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901310003.QAA00500@h24-64-221-247.gv.wave.shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901310003.QAA00500@h24-64-221-247.gv.wave.shaw.ca>; from Jake on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:03:48PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 16:03:48 -0800, Jake wrote: >> In -CURRENT it is now: >> >> if [ "X$skip_diskconf" != "XYES" -a -n "$vinum_slices" ]; then >> vinum read $vinum_slices >> fi > > Has this been fixed in -stable? No. > There was the problem of $vinum_slices not being initialized > because it was being used before rc.conf had been sourced. > >>> Any ideas why this isn't working? Is it working in -current but not -stable? > > This led me to believe that he was running -stable and simply > posted to the wrong group. Yes, I think you must be right. > The 'suck in rc.conf' part was moved to the top of rc after the split, > so i think this is the problem. > > IMHO this should be back-ported to stable; seems safe enough to > source rc.conf before mounting non-root filesystems. My system > isn't mission critical or anything, but I haven't run into any > gotchas. I can't see any way that this could compromise the stability of -STABLE, so I agree. Peter committed the change to -CURRENT, so I'll leave it to him. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message