Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:14:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: Brad Chisholm <sasblc@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19990928151416.S94452@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990928003640.00b92620@207.227.119.2>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:36:40AM -0500 References: <3.0.3.32.19990927153730.0204c420@207.227.119.2> <19990925104024.B54407@freebie.lemis.com> <199909271705.NAA43302@concours.pc.sas.com> <3.0.3.32.19990927153730.0204c420@207.227.119.2> <19990928084130.L46202@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.3.32.19990928003640.00b92620@207.227.119.2>
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On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 0:36:40 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 08:41 AM 9/28/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> It has changed (again). > > And the preferred method is... > a) /dev/da0 > b) /dev/da0s1 > c) /dev/da0s1e > (-current and -stable I hope :) (b) or (c). (a) isn't a slice. Note that it won't take slice c, either. >>> Not to surprising that it paniced with what appeared to be a >>> "dedicated" disk (ie da0e). >> >> It's surprising. Good software shouldn't panic. But this input is >> valuable, because now I know where to look. > > Should have spoken up quite a while back. Figured it was pilot error and > the panic was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Read http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html. It's also in vinum(4). >> I think you're misinterpreting what Brad was saying. He was issuing >> the same command, once during boot and once later. I've had a number >> of reports of this problem, but this is the first one that helps me >> find the bug. > > Interpreted as an either/or. Vinum read followed by a vinum read (or start)? You don't want to use vinum read. Just vinum start. And I've found the bug (thanks, Brad). I'll be committing a fix Real Soon Now. >> It's all in the pipeline. But first we need Vinum on the root file >> system. > > How is this coming along, been quite a while since anything has discussed > (-current/-stable/-cvs). Last thing was back in July. It's still in the pipeline. I can't give any time frame. There are some bugs I need to look at (http://www.lemis.com/vinum/bugs.html), and then I can start thinking about it. 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
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